Loony´s review

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

The Plot: So here we go again! Crazy evil bad guy wants world domination, and it’s Ethan Hunt to the rescue.
This time it’s a crazy Swede (??) who wants to blow up the world, so that the survivors can create a… well, supposedly better world afterwards. Them criminals are really clever…
Anyways, Mr Cruise and his team, hot black chick, dorky red haired dude and bruiting sensitive hottie, is of course the world’s only hope. The MI director gets his head blown off in front of Tommyboy right after having explained that the president has invoked “Ghost Protocol”, which basically means that no one will admit that they exist, so they are all pretty much in the crapper.
So, Tom does what he does best! He runs, jumps, climbs, fight and blows stuff up, and what do you know!! The world is saved!! And I don’t consider that to be a spoiler on my part, the world is always saved in Mission Impossible.

Tom Cruise will always be Tom Cruise but the whole action deal is getting really old! He should do like a hardcore drama or something, we’re sick of the 4 foot action dork. The hot black chick who I thought was Alicia Keyes, is played by her lookalike Paula Patton and was in my opinion lot better in "Precious. She is just too much of a cutie for this, even if she does throw a mean punch. And the red haired dork? The fantastic Simon Pegg, who has absolutely no business in an MI movie!! I’m sure he will be absolutely brilliant in his upcoming movie “A Fantastic Fear of Everything” and I love him in “Shawn of the Dead” but he is NOT an MI agent.
Jeremy Renner, bruiting hottie, does his job, no complaints there, but that’s about it. Kind of fun to see Josh Holloway make an appearance, and It’s nice to know he’s not still Lost on that Island. With long hair.

So, Iv’e seen the movie twice, and no it didn’t get better the second time. I think the problem lies not only in that we’ve seen it all before, but also we don’t really get to know the characters, especially the bad guy! Usually there’s an unravelling backstory and you get to know him up close and really get a sense of how awful and evil he is. Here Michael Nyquist flashes by in the beginning and doesn’t really turn up again until right at the end when he and Tommyboy are throwing cars at each other. And that whole Ghost Protocol thing, its mentioned in the beginning but then the movie feels like nothing’s really changed, so what was the point of that? Except finding a cool name for the movie. There’s no feeling in whole thing. The only time it had feeling was when Tom is climbing the outside of a veeeryyyy high building. But I think that was mainly fear of heights on my part.

Worth seeing? I had to see it twice to even remember what it was about, so you tell me.