Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol Steelbook [4K UHD]

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Well Like most other people I have had a love hate relationship with the mission Impossible films. I loved the 1st one, thought the 2nd one was ok, in places, but had a bad bad plot and some bad stunts. I liked the 3rd one for its return to the same style as the 1st one. For the 4th one I have to say I loved it. Having Simon Pegg in it changed the way the story worked and having a more fun side to it, like the 3rd one made the film. I loved the stunts and for me, made the film nice and easy to watch. This type of film is not going to change your way of life, make you go and do something for a charity, question the the meaning of man kind or how the world was made. It a film to take you away for a couple of hours to relax and enjoy. Take it for this and you like it, but thinking it change your life then you will hate it. So I have given it 2 thumbs up (5 stars).

As some have mentioned, this is not a cerebral experience but I am unsure why anyone watching any Mission Impossible film would ever expect that it would be. This is an action thriller, dumb and brash and extremely unlikely. It is a work of escapist fiction where the audience must suspend their disbelief a little to invest in an over-the-top international espionage and terrorism plot played out by characters who are a little 'extra' human. It is a comic book film of sorts. And it is a very good one. It's fun.One of the main reasons why this works better than the other films in the series is Cruise's portrayal. He is reined in by the director (and, I believe, by himself) in order to give the supporting cast space to act. He is still the 'hero' or main protagonist, there are no illusions about that, but he is far more likeable and grounded in this instalment. And he even has an interesting back story that ties in with Jeremy Renner's (the new Bourne!) character rather splendidly.The plot is ridiculous and the set pieces wholly implausible but they are certainly staged with aplomb and extract much suspense from the situations, as well as even some startling twists. The scenes in Dubai where Hunt has to scale the Burj Khalifa are stunningly silly but palm-sweatingly good. Onwards to Mumbai and then back to Seattle, they certainly rack up a few stamps on their ghost passports. And it is fun to see the team working without back-up and the least amount of gizmos to aid them.The denouement where the new team disband with new missions and the Hunt sub-plot comes to a sad but fitting resolution is a perfect way to both move on and leave the possibility of sequels open.Highly recommended for action film junkies. Art house lovers need not apply - but they already know that.

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Loved it, as you'd expect on this 4th M.I. Outing loads of mind boggling stunts. Beginning With an brutally intense pre-credit sequence in Budapest and a brief, sentimental stop in Seattle, Mr Hunt & Co move from an ingenious jail break in Moscow to Dubai and at usual breakneck speed to Mumba. There then follows fantastic car chases and shoot-outs as Ethan's team use their state-of-the-art equipment and considerable ingenuity to frustrate the film's baddie! Two sequences are breathtakingly stunning. The first is an explosion that supposedly blows up half the Kremlin, with the second seeing Mr Cruise clinging to the plate-glass and stainless steel surface of the 130th floor of Dubai's Burj Khalifa tower, the world's tallest building, with only a pair of adhesive gloves to stop him falling. As with the latest Bond films these filmmakers put the money up on the screen, at least if you'd seen it at the cinema you would rightly have got your money's worth. A great movie to have in your DVD collection.

In my opinion, this--the fourth--is the best in the Mission: Impossible series so far. The usual non stop high tech action is supplemented by some truly stomach churning scenes as a substantial part of the plot of Ghost Protocol takes place in and around the Burj Khalifa--the highest skyscraper in the world--in Dubai and involves Tom Cruise's character Ethan Hunt having to scale a large section of the exterior using high-tech adhesive gloves in order to access and hack the building's security systems. The fact that Cruise, as usual, does most of his own stunt work is seriously impressive. Highly recommended unless you suffer from vertigo.Chris Allen is a Technical Author and a crime writer specializing in unusual and well researched fiction with the following books available through Amazon:His latest novel: Reality Shaper: The Quantum DetectiveParallel LifetimesThe Beam of Interest: Taken by StormHypnotic Tales 2013: Some Light Some DarkCall of the Void: The Strange Life and Times of a Confused Person: 1

More ridiculous stunts and over-the-top "nobody can beat Tom Cruise" madness. On-par with the previous movie. Better than the first two.

Well designed. A great collectors piece.