Your next mission, if you choose to accept...

(Mission Impossible IV: Ghost Protocol 2011)

MI-4 did not really standout as its predecessors. It is a megalomaniac display of Hollywood's pyrotechnic and cinematographic prowess. The story is the good old confrontation of two Cold War supremos and hijacking nuclear warheads as well as the bombing of Kremlin.

Former Bollywood poster boy of the 80s, Anil Kapoor, appears as a bumbling Indian millionaire playboy whose judgement is hormone driven. Ghost Protocol refers to the protocol where IMF is disbanded after all fingers point them for the bombing of the Russia Soviet icon-Kremlin. Ethan Hunt which his team have to clear while shedding the Russian police off his back.

Sometimes you wonder... As if these paid Government servants would go through all these hurls, shrapnel and loss of life just for the love of the nation and to uphold its interests? Well, I say, dream on... Is life worth the piece of cloth that carries the ashes or medal of valour conferred posthumously?

Tom Cruise as the lead character, Ethan Hunt, never evoked any emotions in his character or his audience (i.e. me)! The dialogues were just forgettable fillers between action sequences.
I just watched it because of nostalgia and was waiting in vain for the catchy introductory 'tape will self-destruct' line to excite me. Maybe it was the lousy sound system, but the burning fuse which has been the signature tune of this franchise all this while appeared muffled and did not set the mood for the rest of the movie.

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