In the 4th
installment of the Mission Impossible series, Ethan Hunt and his team are
racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who
has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on
the United States. An attempt by the team to stop him at the Kremlin ends in a
disaster, with an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the
IMF being implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to invoke Ghost
Protocol, under which the IMF is disavowed, and will be offered no help or
backup in any form. Undaunted, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks to Dubai, and
from there to Mumbai, but several spectacular action sequences later, they
might still be too late to stop a disaster. © IMDb
I do not
consider myself as the great fan of Mission Impossible franchise. The first
part, released in 1996 (!) was action at its purest, with the small intrigue
set up by the question “Who betrayed the group?” and the soundtrack which
pretty soon was installed on 95% of mobile phones as the alarm clock signal. Since
then Ethan Hunt became iconic spy, even though the franchise overall was going
downhill. The second part was an absolute failure, already too surreal for a
serious action movie but still not surreal enough for Matrix-style movie. The
third part improved a little bit but generally it was still laughable.
