The movie presents a story that is absurd. Nevertheless, it is entertaining. The movie takes the players to many different parts of the world. How they get to these places the movie does not explain. At each place people are on the run, traps are being set, communications are tense, as the good guys and bad guys try to outwit the other. The movie is devoid of any overt political content, concentrating its attention on telling the story. Tom Cruise delivers an energetic performance that carries the movie. He is in almost every scene. The movie is never dull. For fans of action movies, this movie will not disappoint.

And as much as I did like the original 1996 movie, despite some convolutions in the story, I found this sequel even better and better than the better-than-reputation-but-flawed sequels. Perhaps it is little too long, but there are so many impressive things about it. The plot may have a sense of familiarity about it, but what Mission Impossible- Ghost Protocool does is make the film as inventive and as relentless as possible knowing this.

The visual spectacle is faultless I have to say. The gadgets are suitably outlandish, anyone here love the retina-based video-screen, the film is shot and edited in a stylish fashions, the stunts such as Cruise dangling off the Burj Khalifa tower are amazing and the special effects dazzling. Brad Bird(director also of the wonderful Iron Giant and the excellent Pixar films Ratatouille and The Incredibles) does a very capable job directing, making everything as gripping as possible.

I very much liked the music too which helps to enhance the action and what not. The dialogue is tension-filled and the humour doesn't jar too much, the film is much better paced than the third film(which I found rather sluggish at times) with some scenes going at an exhilarating rate and the characters while not the most compelling ever are much less cardboard than the previous two outings in my opinion. The story as I've said may be familiar, but again much is done to make us not think too much of this, and if there was one thing that it improved over the original it was that it was less convoluted.

The acting was fine, with Tom Cruise giving perhaps his most comfortable performance of the series, Jeremy Renner is a great new addition and Simon Pegg gives some well-timed comic relief. The villain was good as well and solidly played by Michael Nyqvist, if not as well-written or as well-performed as Owen Davian superbly played by Phillip Seymour Hoffmann.

All in all, I loved it and consider it the best sequel since the original film and even surpasses it. 9/10 Bethany Cox

I absolutely loved MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3, so I knew the newest and fourth entry in the series, GHOST PROTOCOL, would have its work cut out to enter the same territory. It turns out I needn't have worried; this is spellbinding film-making indeed, a techno-thriller that sets out to thrill and does it very well.

GHOST PROTOCOL is fast, furious and entirely engaging. It kicks off with an intense set-piece and doesn't let up from there, feeling very much like a recent James Bond movie in its globetrotting scenarios and action-packed set-pieces. The extended sequence in Dubai is the highlight, of course, but the rest of the movie doesn't disappoint either.

Cruise is starting to look his age now but he still cuts it as a leading man and there's no faulting his enthusiasm for his craft. The rest of the cast is more mixed, with Michael Nyqvist struggling and visibly out of his comfort zone and Paula Patton unforgivably reduced to mere window dressing, but the reliable Jeremy Renner is on hand to restore order. I still don't get the fuss over Simon Pegg but I suppose he's not too irritating here.

Anyway, the emphasis is on intrigue and bombastic action and who would have thought that animation man Brad Bird would do such a fine job as director? The explosions are loud, the fight scenes are brutal and if there are occasional missteps that veer into silliness, the film always bounces back. Bring on number five!