back to browsing

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol [Blu-ray/DVD] [Includes Digital Copy; UltraViolet]

2 discs
Region 1 USA/CA (info)

Academy Award-winning director Brad Bird (RATATOUILLE) makes his live-action feature directorial debut with the fourth installment of the massively successful MISSION IMPOSSIBLE series. The Kremlin has been bombed, and the blame has fallen on the IMF. As a result, the president initiates Ghost Protocol, and accuses Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team of placing the bomb in an attempt to incite a global nuclear war. Now, in order to clear the IMF of terrorism charges, Ethan assembles a new team to uncover the truth by using every high-tech trick in the book. But this time they're on their own, and should they be caught, the entire world could be plunged into a nightmare from which there is no waking up. Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, and Simon Pegg co-star.
Read More...
Credits

Thomas, Cruise Mapother, Tom Cruise, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Jeremy Renner, Michael Nyqvist
Critic Reviews

"Bird has done a stylish and involving job here, turning in an entertaining production that's got considerable visual flair....This is high anxiety with a vengeance."
Los Angeles Times
"[W]ith inventive visuals and spectacular action scenes....A powerful thrill ride that is simultaneously gritty and dazzling."
USA Today
"Mr. Bird and his cinematographer, Robert Elswit, sustain a remarkable level of visual and dramatic energy in scenes that exult in exotic settings, edgy architecture and quirky behavior."
Wall Street Journal
4 stars out of 5 -- "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 4 is so well-made and smooth you may need to see it more than once to truly appreciate its brains and nerves and blood."
Box Office
"[Bird] delivers stunning and often inventive visuals, not to mention some ultra cool new gadgets worth drooling over..."
Movieline
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "MISSION IMPOSSIBLE -- GHOST PROTOCOL is a terrific thriller with action sequences that function as a kind of action poetry."
Chicago Sun-Times
"Bird brings a scary amount of assurance to GHOST PROTOCOL. His action scenes are clean, coherent, thrilling, and visceral..." -- Grade: A-
A.V. Club
"GHOST PROTOCOL brims with scenes that are exciting and amazing at the same time....Fast and explosive, but it's also a supremely clever sleight-of-hand thriller." -- Grade: A
Entertainment Weekly
"[T]he score is in safe hands with Michael Giacchino, and one set piece is among the best in the series..."
Sight and Sound