This week, Ethan Hunt returns to save both the world and Tom Cruise’s career in Brad Bird’s 2011 spy thriller, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Is this a high point for the franchise? Did Josh Holloway deserve better? Is every action sequence better when it’s scored with a Dean Martin track?
Content warning: gun violence, peril, heights
Unanswered Questions:
- Does this Ethan make sense of the first three movies?
- Does this film improve the franchise’s record with women, or not?
- Why is Tom Wilkinson uncredited?
Further reading:
- Disney’s Nine Old Men (Wikipedia)
- “Do The Bartman” (1991)
- The Iron Giant (1999)
- Tomorrowland (2015)
- Ayn Rand (Wikipedia)
- Objectivism
- Este Haim
- Playing With The Boys (Top Gun)
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
- The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
- The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
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