Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Review

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol


Release Date: 15th December 2011 - Australia


Production Companies
Paramount Pictures (presents)
Skydance Productions (presents)
Bad Robot Productions
TC Productions

Distribution
Paramount Pictures Australia


Genre: Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 133 minutes


Budget: $145,000,000

Box Office Gross: $694,713,380 (Worldwide)


Plot Summary
After the IMF gets wrongly accused of bombing the Kremlin, the President invokes Ghost Protocol, thus shutting down the organisation. It results in Ethan Hunt and his new team going rogue to clear its name.


Cast
Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt
Jeremy Renner - William Brandt
Simon Pegg - Benji Dunn
Paula Patton - Jane Carter
Michael Nyqvist - Kurt Hendricks
Vladimir Mashkov - Anatoly Sidorov
Samuli Edelmann - Wistrom
Ivan Shvedoff - Leonid Lisenker
Anil Kapoor - Brij Nath
Josh Holloway - Trevor Hanaway
Lea Seydoux - Sabine Moreau
Pavel Kriz - Marek Stefanski
Miraj Grbic - Bogdan
Illa Volok - The Fog
Tom Wilkinson - The IMF
Secretary (Uncredited)
Ving Rhames - Luther Strickell
(Cameo) (Uncredited)
Michelle Monaghan - Julia
Mead (Cameo) (Uncredited)

Crew
Director - Brad Bird
Based on the Television Series - Bruce Geller
Based on Characters - Steven Zaillian and David Koepp (Uncredited)
Writers/Co-Producers - Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec
Associate Producer - Ben Rosenblatt
Executive Producers - Jeffrey Chernov, David Ellison, Dana Goldberg and Paul Schwake
Producers - J.J. Abrams,
Bryan Burk and Tom Cruise
Co-Producer/Unit Production Manager -

Tommy Harper
Co-Producer/Visual Effects Producer -

Tom C. Peitzman

Casting Directors - April Webster

and Alyssa Weinberg
Production Designer - Jim Bissell

Illustrator: Prague - Tim Flattery
Supervising Art Director - Helen Jarvis

Supervising Art Director: Prague -

Christa Munro

Art Directors - Michael Diner and

Grant Van Der Slagt

Art Director: Prague - Martin Vackar

Art Director: Dubai - Michael Turner

Storyboard Artist/Additional Second Unit

Director - Jeffrey Lynch

Set Decorators - Rosemary Brandenberg

and Elizabeth Wilcox

Leadpersons: Prague - Jan Kodera,

and Clovis Chambaret

Property Masters - Kris Peck and

Dean Eillerston

Armourer - Harry Lu
Costume Designer - Michael Kaplan

Costume Supervisor - James W. Tyson

Riyaz Ali Merchant

Makeup Designer and Supervisor - Michele Burke

Makeup Effects Artists - David LeRoy

& Heather Anderson

Director of Photography - Robert Elswit

Director of Photography: Second Unit -

Mitchell Amundsen

Director of Photography: India - Larry Blanford

Underwater Director of Photography:

Second Unit - Pete Romano

Aerial Director of Photography: Second Unit,

Dubai - Adam Dale

Camera Operator: Second Unit, Dubai -

Florian Emmerich

First Assistant Photographers - Barry Baz Idoine,

Taylor Matheson and Scott Hoffman

Aerial Coordinator: Second Unit, Dubai -

Marc Wolff

First Assistant Directors - Tommy Gormley

and Geoffrey Hansen

First Assistant Director: Second Unit/India -

Michael Salven 

First Assistant Director: Second Unit, Dubai -

Chris Castaldi

Second Assistant Directors - Misha Bukowski

and Brandon Lamboin

Location Manager - Ann Goobie
Second Unit Director - Dan Bradley

Stunt Coordinator - Gregg Smrz

Stunt Coordinator: Canada - Owen Walstrom

Stunt Coordinators: India - Markos Rounthwaite

and Sham Kausal

Fight Coordinator - Robert Alonzo

Stunt Rigger/Double - Randy Hall (Uncredited)

Picture Car Coordinators - Tim Woods

and Rick Rasmussen
Special Effects Supervisor - Michael Meinardus

Effects Supervisor: Canada - Cameron Waldbauer

Visual Effects Supervisor - John Knoll

Visual Effects Plate Supervisor: ILM - Russell Earl

Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM Singapore - Mohen Leo
Associate Visual Effects Supervisor: ILM -

Lindy DeQuattro

Visual Effects Art Director: ILM - Alex Jaeger

Digital Model Supervisor: ILM - Russell Paul

Compositing Supervisor: ILM - Todd Vaziri
Editor - Paul Hirsch

Associate Editor - Evan Schiff
Sound Designer/Re-Recording Mixer -

Gary Rydstrom

Supervising Sound Editor - Richard Hymns

Sound Effects Editors: Skywalker Sound -

Dustin Cawood, Teresa Eckton, Will Files

and Ken Fischer

Sound Mixer - Michael McGee

ADR Supervisor - Gwendolyn Yates Whittle

ADR Editors: Skywalker Sound - Daniel Laurie

and Brad Semenoff

Dialogue/ADR Editors: Skywalker Sound -

Cheryl Nardi and Marshall Winn

Re-Recording Mixer - Andy Nelson

Foley Artists - Dennie Thorpe and Lana Vance

Foley Mixer - Frank Rinella

Music - Michael Giacchino
Composer: Theme Music - Lalo Schifrin


Review
GHOST PROTOCOL has many exhilarating stunts and non-stop action, making this movie look fantastic. Animation veteran Brad Bird directed this motion picture, making him the first from Pixar to direct a live-action feature. Tom Cruise did a marvellous job continuing his performance as Ethan Hunt. It makes him the best film actor since Arnold Schwarzenegger. I also forgot about Simon Pegg's comic relief as he got promoted from the third film, and you know what, Pegg is extremely good with humour.

GHOST PROTOCOL is a great spy movie, but I would go back to watch and review the other Mission: Impossible films and Tom Cruise favourites like Top Gun and Rain Man. Everyone who loved the TV series and previous Mission: Impossible movies may want to view the latest release.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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