A- |
***½ |
+0|
Teens & Up
Brad Bird’s
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is so preposterously entertaining that it makes watching other recent Hollywood action spectacles feel like work. What in the last few years even compares to it?
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C+ |
**½ |
-2|
Teens & Up*
As he did with
The Untouchables, in
Mission: Impossible De Palma borrows the marquee value of an earlier franchise as a pretext for a series of loosely strung-together set pieces, highlighted by a single dazzling sequence that’s better than the rest of the movie put together.
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C+ |
**½ |
+1-1|
Teens & Up*
Despite its flaws,
M:I‑III is competent, disposable entertainment. There’s nothing here that really grabs you like the first film’s CIA break-in, but it doesn’t leave a sour taste like Woo’s
M:I‑II. Even so, in the post-007 world of Jason Bourne, that may not be enough.
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D+ |
**½ |
-2|
Adults*
This second
Mission: Impossible film has almost as little to do with the 1996 blockbuster original as the latter had with the classic TV series whose name it happened to share.
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