2011. I like this film very much, I think the best of the series so far. I like the characters, I'm happy Jeremy Renner is in it, and I like the action, it's lots of fun. The plot is kind of a detail, in a way, because I barely followed it. For some reason, there's always someone who would like a third world war, and here this crazy man blows up the Kremlin making it look like Ethan and his team did it, therefore the Americans. Then he intends to launch Russian missiles towards America to make it look like the Russian did it. It's as simple as that, but of course there are many steps before they can do this.
It starts with Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) inside a russian prison, and a team helps him escape. I admit I felt mixed feelings about this: yes the action was fun and Ethan is the hero we want free, but still those in there are just simple guards, aren't they? It didn't seem right to me that they left them locked in there with all the prisoners loose, especially the first guard because he was alone, with all the prisoners kicking him. They might have killed him, we don't even know! I know it was a useful distraction to allow Ethan to get out, but still, poor people! It was cruel.
This way Ethan meets agent Carter (Paula Patton) and sees Benji (Simon Pegg) again. Their next mission brings them inside the Kremlin, and I admit I thought the trick with the jacket to change his look from uniform to tourist was more impressive to me that all his gadgets. I loved that, how quickly he changed into a perfect tourist! :lol: He was ready to go away, when the Kremlin exploded, and he was injured. At the hospital, local police thinks he did it. Proofs lead to him. Ethan later meets the Secretary who tells him that the russians think the americans did it, and that the President has activated the Ghost Protocol, meaning the whole Mission Impossible is cancelled and they are like outlaws, or something, but they are attacked, and he's killed. Ethan escapes with the Chief Analist William Brandt (Jeremy Renner), and decide to go on with the team, to stop the crazy one and avoid the worst. At this point there's a tipical Mission Impossible operation, where Ethan and Brandt pretend to be the two bad guys buying missile codes from a blonde assassin, while Carter pretends to be the assassin selling the codes to the real guys. All without masks because the machine didn't work. Good, why should it happen only to us, to have machines always choosing the worst moment of all to break? :-p Also the famous scene of Ethan climbing the tallest building, so famous even before the movie came out because apparently Cruise didn't want any stuntman, he did it all himself. Yeah yeah, very brave. Now, why does he want to take away stuntmen's job?
We have a moment of revelation when Ethan and Brandt exchange moves and Ethan asks him who is he really, and how could an agent with skills like his end up an analist? Brandt confesses to the others but not to Ethan what keeps troubling him : everybody thinks Ethan's wife left him, but he knows that she died because he was assigned to protect her and he failed. Oh, poor tormented soul, come here...
Then there's a lot of running, Ethan always runs a lot. I loved the conversation between Brandt and Benji about Brandt's jump and Benji saying "and I'll catch you" :lol: it was funny, and Brandt was adorable. Just as it was funny when after it was done Brandt said "next time, I get to seduce the rich guy" :lol:
As usual, more running and fighting, but team's work wins and they succeed. Only thing, the missile was launched, and they were fighting to avoid it hitting San Francisco, and succeeded that it was already there, it hitted something and landed on the water, but did not explode, and I thought: Really? American radars did not see it? America didn't do anything to stop it? They simply waited hoping that some people they did not know were on it could solve the problem for them? Come on!
At the end, Ethan tells them that he's happy with this team, and hopes to work with them again, and gives them all a mission, a recording they should take and listen to privately, that is. Carter and Benji takes it and go , but Brandt stands up and is going away without taking it. Ethan calls him back and Brandt confesses his shame, that Ethan's wife is dead because he failed his mission. But he's wrong. Ethan reveals that his wife is not dead. It was a most important secret for everyone "but you're telling me": Brandt was touched, Ethan trusts him :-) Ethan faked her death to protect her "as long as we were together she could never be safe. It wasn't your job to protect her, Brandt. It's mine." Beautiful, I liked it.
I hope they'll do another film with this same team, because I love Brandt, and Carter is okay. I liked her enough. Her too, please. But most importantly Brandt!
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