Your average, typical okay action film

Rating: 7/10 (20 December 2011)

Before I give a piece of my mind about Phantom Protocoll, a quick sum up of my thoughts of the other Mission Impossible movies: Part 1: nice and good Part 2: forgettable Part 3: really cool, due to Philip Seymour Hoffman so all in all, I wouldn't go as far as to call the trilogy great or fantastic but it definitely has its moments and overall is pretty entertaining. And the same can be said about Part 4.
First lets talk about the things that work: the story, its your typical agents go on a secret mission story, its no inception but it works fine for the film. Then the cast (for the most part): even though i'm not a huge fan of Tom Cruise (still loved him in minority report though) here he is okay, plays his role pretty subtle and the same can be said about Jeremy Renner and Simon Pegg. The only minor problem I have is that Peggs role is a bit too over the top since he is the typical comedic flick who has to be in every movie nowadays. Not bad, but not necessary ether. The last thing that works really good is the action. There is a good use of CGI, the scenes in Dubai are amazing and the movie is never too overblown with effects so you can't take a break from it (go and tell Michael Bay that).
Now the things that don't work for me are as I said the role of Simon Pegg, the length of the movie because i think it could have been cut a bit but most of all the quote unquote drama back story of Jeremy Renner. Even though I really love this guy and the fact that i wanted to see this movie because of him I think he was the weakest link in the chain. His back story is beyond clichéd, there are some mayor plot holes in it and he was absolutely unnecessary for the main plot.
But still if people ask me should I see Phantom protocol I'd say yes, as long as you just expect some nice action with maybe a bit too much forced humor, you're in for a ride, even though it doesn't revolutionize the genre of action films.