REVIEW---MI 4
Hi! Dudes and chics.Here are ,your gonna be favourite, film reviewers superstud Sudhir and muscular Manik.Guys we gonna review the 4th part of very –very famous enterprise of Hollywood which is also a rage in bollywood too i.e Mission impossible.The 4th part of this seires released last Friday namely Mission impossible 4 Ghost protocol.The star cast is a moon the heart thorb of billions Tom cruise,Paula patton,Simon peg,Michael nyqvist,Jeremy Renner and our very own masakali’s father Anil kapoor.
But is Mission impossible worthy for your 150or 200 bucks?The answer is no.MI4 has a lacklusture script with slow paced screenplay,excluding tom and Paula patton the other performances are not up to the mark. The saving parts are Tom cruise and Paula patton’s performances, Some action sequences and nothing else.
The story goes like this Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) being rescued from a prison in Russia by IMF agents, Jane (Paula Patton) and Benji (Simon Pegg). While Jane is a previously known accomplice of Hunt’s, Benji, a technical mastermind, has just been promoted as a field agent. The trio tries to penetrate the high-security Russian Kremlin in order to obtain the secret codes to a nuclear bomb that has fallen into the hands of the terrorists. If the terrorists, led by Prof. Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist), find the codes, then they might use them to trigger a nuclear attack against the USA in order to further cause a nuclear catastrophe.
However, on finding that their secret mission has been compromised, Hunt and his associates abandon the mission and leave the Kremlin. Seconds after they get out, a wing of the Kremlin is bombed. Injured, Hunt is taken to the hospital, from where he escapes. However, a Russian police officer, Sidorov (Vladimir Mashkov), starts tracking Hunt’s movements from then on. On the other hand, the IMF, Hunt’s secret spy organisation, is blamed for the Kremlin bombing and is thereby disbanded by the US government. IMF secretary (Tom Wilkinson) informs Hunt about this. Soon, the secretary is murdered, but his associate, Brandt (Jeremy Renner), joins Hunt’s group. Now, Hunt and the other three agents decide to track the terrorists down at any cost and get the nuclear codes. They fly to various parts of the world, including Dubai and India in order to fulfill their objective. Are they able to obtain the codes? Are they able to stop the terrorists from detonating the nuclear bomb? Is Ethan Hunt able to get the IMF back on its feet? All these questions are answered in the rest of the drama and the climax.
First thing first , Since it’s the 4th part of MI 4 so the comparison with the previous parts is inevitable.The 1st and second parts of the franchise were not only entertaining but were having good scripts too.This is where the 4th part flatters like the third part. What’s more – unlike the previous films, where the inner machinations of the IMF were fully exploited by the writers – Ghost Protocol offers no such thing for the viewer to look forward to. Tracks instead, of Brandt (as the mysterious outsider who joins the team), and of the truth about Ethan Hunt’s wife (is she dead or not?), do not compensate for the loss of the excitement caused by the absence of the internecine spy-wars. Moreover, the villain of the film, Hendricks, is just not given enough screen time to establish his persona. Instead, a lot of screen time is spent on the internal discussions of the four agents, which, after a point of time, gets tiring to watch. The screenplay, also by Appelbaum and Nemec, is well-written in the first half of the film, but it starts dragging in the latter half. In fact, as a consequence, the film seems longer than its running time of approximately 130 minutes. The dialogues are okay at places and good at some others. The lines penned for Benji are sure to please the audience.
Now the highlights: the film uses a lot of high-tech gadgetry, masterful visual effects and loads of spy jargon to keep the lay viewer engaged most of the time. Besides Ethan Hunt’s breathtaking stunts, the sandstorm chase sequence of Hunt and Hendricks, the climactic fight between Hunt and Hendricks in the multi-storeyed car park, and the countdown to the missile explosion are very exciting. This and the slightly complicated plot gets confusing for many after a point of time but they are more than compensated for by the very well-done action and stunt sequences. For those who have never before seen a Mission: Impossible film, this one will seem like a good fare. But for those who have known better, Ghost Protocol will disappoint.
The performances are also not upto the mark.Tom and Paula as I earlier mentioned are fabulous.Simon peg brings smile on the face of viewers but the true talent of this great actor is not put out.Anil kapoor is sidelined but does a satisfactory job.Jermy shines as Brandt and Michael is okay in a brief role.
Brad Bird’s direction is suited to the script he has at hand. He shines in the opening sequence as well as in all the stunt and action scenes but fails in keeping the narrative fast-paced and engaging at all times. Michael Giacchino’s background score is effective. Robert Elswit’s cinematography is very good. He has captured the sights of the various cities depicted in the film very well. Technically, the film is brilliant. Production designer Jim Bissell has done an excellent job. The visual effects (by Industrial Light & Magic) are superlative. Editing, by Paul Hirsch, is sharp.
On the whole MI 4 is an average fare but due to brand MI it’s gonna make it”s way in the top five of Hollywood and will do above average business in metro cities of India.
Our rating for this tom cruise flick is 2.5 stars.
Hope you liked this and catch the review of Indian Tom cruise’s that is SRK’s Don 2 this sunday.Till then good bye.
