A roller coaster thrill ride !!!!

Rating: 9/10 (16 December 2011)

Power, adrenaline, thrill, rush, are many of the pure ingredients of Tom Cruise's formula for Mission-Impossible-Ghost Protocol. Well I can assure you MIGP will take you for the roller coaster ride of your life and you will just wish the movie never ended.
Tom Cruise returns as Agent Ethan Hunt thrown into a plot not related to the third installment. I am not going to spoil the movie since not a lot of people have watched it yet but it is more than safe to say that the acting performances are superb, a solid script, Cruise is 'the' super action star, Jeremy Renner is a magnificent action addition to this cast, the female touch in this story is both sexy and lethal as portrayed by Paula Patton, Simon Pegg does a wonderful job with his subtle comedy without overdoing or exaggerating it and yet being serious and responsible when need be.
It is clearly evident that the writers this time relied heavily on lesser action scenes, or lesser action in the suspenseful scenes especially lesser fight scenes, in comparison with the previous three parts, in favor of more wit, suspense, and gut-wrenching challenging twists and turns in the plot that persistently and truly make this mission for Ethan and his team impossible to accomplish and this is obvious in the final scene when Ethan says:" the only thing that functioned in this mission is this team".
Two things did not really sit right with me about this movie, one, I found that the first scene in this movie, the prison scene, action and suspense wise was not up to par in comparison with the commencing scenes of the first three parts, I guess the writers introduced the new "less action, more wit and suspense" formula from the beginning of the movie and carried it along, I think they should have begun with the old formula and then kicked in the new mode after the credits. Two, the first thing that comes to my mind and I am assure to a lot of people's minds when the name Dubai is mentioned, is images of beautiful and spacious landscapes full of extravagant buildings, constructions, and towers yet the writers decided to introduce Dubai in the movie with desert and camels ?!!!!!???!?!?!? As an Arab and a Lebanese I found that to be insulting, especially when Ethan swerves off in his car to avoid hitting a group of camels walking in the middle of the road; two elements here caught my attention the camels and the road, reflecting to me the idea of regression and primitiveness that some Arab people are still using camels to get to their destinations, and again the Western's and especially the American's image and idea about the Arab people associated with camels and desert is repeated here and I feel the color of the sand of these deserts was exaggerated or increased to give it more an oriental desert look and not the usual color you would see in other non-Arab countries, I lived in Dubai for one whole year and never in those days, as far as I can remember, have I seen so much camels, if any at all, like I saw in this movie, and this is not the right color of sand found in the UAE, it is much lighter in tone. Still in general I enjoyed this movie a whole lot, I had a childish smile on my face throughout and got the occasional goose bumps from time to time.
MIGP is an intensifying, action-thriller, watch it or miss out on the ride of your life.