Another Mission Impossible, always turning out not to be impossible and this time with a Swede as the 'villain': Michael Nyqvist.
An IMF agent - Trevor Hanaway (Josh Holloway) - is killed by an assassin, Sabine Moreau (Léa Seydoux) and a team, lead by Jane Carter (Paula Patton) with field agent Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), help releasing Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his source Bogdan (Miraj Grbic) from a Moscow prison.
A bomb destroys the Kremlin and the Russian agent Sidorov (Vladimir Mashkov) arrests Hunt as he thinks the latter is responsible for this catastrophy. He is not however as his mission was to infiltrate the Kremlin archives in order to identify 'Cobalt', a code name for a person Hanaway was looking for before being killed.
The Russians call this an "undeclared act of war" and the US president activates "Ghost Protocol", a black operation contingency aiming at disavowing the entire IMF.
If Hunt and his associates take the blame for this attack, they will be allowed to ecape and track down Cobalt but before Hunt escape, the IMF's secretary (Tom Wilkinson) is killed by the Russian security forces, leaving Hunt and intelligence analyst William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) on their own, together with the two others.
Cobalt is identified as Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist) a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist who believes that the weak must die in order to let the strong survive. To reach his goal he plans to start a nuclear war, in order to initiate a higher level of human evolution(?). Really? How?
Well, from now on the action is on and we follow this team leading them to achieve things becoming more and more dangerous, like climbing on the outside of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the climbing done by our 'super hero' Ethan Hunt of course.
The film contains the usual clichés and Michael Nyqvist is not to impressive as a dangerous madman, trying to fight against Cruise's Hunt.
For those of you enjoying explosives, fights and all the other ingredients in an action movie, be my guest.
For the rest of us there are some humour involved in all this, not least thanks to Simon Pegg.
The theme with a mad scientist and also coming from Russia felt as if we had been transported back to the Cold War era and the US-Russian conflicts. Of course there are conflicts between these two nations today too but it didn't strike us as particularly innovative to use these ingredients.
Director: Brad Bird.
An IMF agent - Trevor Hanaway (Josh Holloway) - is killed by an assassin, Sabine Moreau (Léa Seydoux) and a team, lead by Jane Carter (Paula Patton) with field agent Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), help releasing Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his source Bogdan (Miraj Grbic) from a Moscow prison.
A bomb destroys the Kremlin and the Russian agent Sidorov (Vladimir Mashkov) arrests Hunt as he thinks the latter is responsible for this catastrophy. He is not however as his mission was to infiltrate the Kremlin archives in order to identify 'Cobalt', a code name for a person Hanaway was looking for before being killed.
The Russians call this an "undeclared act of war" and the US president activates "Ghost Protocol", a black operation contingency aiming at disavowing the entire IMF.
If Hunt and his associates take the blame for this attack, they will be allowed to ecape and track down Cobalt but before Hunt escape, the IMF's secretary (Tom Wilkinson) is killed by the Russian security forces, leaving Hunt and intelligence analyst William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) on their own, together with the two others.
Cobalt is identified as Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist) a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist who believes that the weak must die in order to let the strong survive. To reach his goal he plans to start a nuclear war, in order to initiate a higher level of human evolution(?). Really? How?
Well, from now on the action is on and we follow this team leading them to achieve things becoming more and more dangerous, like climbing on the outside of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the climbing done by our 'super hero' Ethan Hunt of course.
The film contains the usual clichés and Michael Nyqvist is not to impressive as a dangerous madman, trying to fight against Cruise's Hunt.
For those of you enjoying explosives, fights and all the other ingredients in an action movie, be my guest.
For the rest of us there are some humour involved in all this, not least thanks to Simon Pegg.
The theme with a mad scientist and also coming from Russia felt as if we had been transported back to the Cold War era and the US-Russian conflicts. Of course there are conflicts between these two nations today too but it didn't strike us as particularly innovative to use these ingredients.
Director: Brad Bird.
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