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Rating: 8/10 (20 January 2012)

There is no Tom in team and Tom Cruise finally learned that as demonstrated in the best Mission Impossible yet! Tom is getting a little bit older so it was a good question if he still had it in him to be a great action star since his career is still a little shaky over the past few years, he's proved once again that he's almost ageless. Despite the fact that it's the unrealistic action, in my opinion that's the best kind! I love my Tom Cruise running without losing an ounce of breath, I love throwing every element of surprise at the team and they manage to get around it, I love the explosions not effecting anyone, the car chases, the dust storms, it's just amazing! Mission Impossible 4 is a roller coaster ride of excitement and doesn't let you go.
Jane Carter, and newly promoted field agent Benji Dunn extract Ethan Hunt and Hunt's source Bogdan from a Moscow prison. Hunt is recruited to lead Carter and Dunn to infiltrate the secret Moscow Kremlin archives and locate files identifying Cobalt. During the mission, someone broadcasts across the IMF frequency, alerting the Russians to Hunt's team. Although Dunn and Carter escape, a bomb destroys the Kremlin, and Russian agent Sidorov arrests Hunt, suspecting him as part of the attack. But as it turns out it's a terrorist who is looking to create a nuclear war and to start man kind over again in order to create world peace.
I loved all the action scenes in here. The best by far is when Tom Cruise has to climb the side of this sky scrapper building with these gloves that are magnetic, you know that one of the gloves is bound to slip and it does and he manages to grab the glass at last minute with one hand. He also then has to land back onto the floor but is a little short on slack so has to get a head start, he runs and barely survives! You know they have to put a predictable outing of the plot where he will survive in there, but it's still exciting to watch. I also loved the dust storm chase scene, that was really intense and exciting to watch. Simon Pegg made for some great comic relief. Jeremy Renner made for a great action side kick that held his own next to Ethan. Paula Patton was a great tough sexy chick the group needed and added a great cat fight to the movie. My only complaint is that the villain didn't seem as developed, so I didn't feel as big a threat with him as I should have. However, Tom Cruise never disappoints with the tension and suspense of the situation. I think it's safe to say that I've fallen back in love with Tom Cruise and the rest of America can too, he may be crazy as a nut, but he never fails to entertain when giving us a great action movie. Very much the best of 2011 and I cannot wait to add it to my video collection. If this is what we have in store for the next Mission Impossible movie, I'll be the first in line.
8/10