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  Review by sophie ★★★★ 6

  tom cruise: hey, dare me to climb the tallest building in the world?
  me: umm... well, no...
  tom cruise, putting his shoes on: i can't believe you're making me do this
  me: TOM NO PLEASE STOP
  tom cruise, beginning to climb: you're so stupid haha

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  Review by Roberto_ ★★★★ 4

  me: scientology is bad

  tom cruise in his 50s: *scales burj khalifa in dubai*

  me, signing papers to join scientology: i'll have what he's having

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  Review by Angela Ferraguto ★★★★ 11

  I think one of the reasons they really start to peak at 4 is Ethan starts to actually be funny? His physical comedy is so good in this. Directing Benji in the prison breakout. The shrugging at the goggles. Getting stuck outside the hospital barefoot. Doesn't say a word, it's all in his face and you crack up. Perfect. Extremely Jackie Chan. It's like he stopped trying to be James Bond and realized we want Police Story.

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 4

  Was an 80, now a 90

  Tom Cruise doesn't 'perform' in Ghost Protocol. He climbs buildings and leaps and punches and dives and drives a car off the side of a parking garage, but he never acts. Brad Bird just happened to film Tom Cruise in the process of growing a third penis, and here we are.

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  Review by demi adejuyigbe ★★★★★ 11

  This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

  This movie is outstanding and the Dubai sequence is obviously the most memorable for good reason, but the thing that really impresses me every time is the Kremlin hallway sequence. A perfect example of feasible, well-designed futurism, and it’s shown to us in action so well that they never have to stop and explain how it works or why it would break down with multiple eye lines. Even makes for a great gag! Love this shit. Sandstorm sequence rules, jailbreak sequence rules, parking garage sequence rules. Imagine where we’d be as a country if Joe Biden had the guts to invoke Ghost Protocol. “The Democrats need your help, Demi. With your $5, we can finally have the power to invoke Ghost Protocol.”

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  Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★

  Aka Brad Bird teaches a masterclass in action filmmaking

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  Review by roby ★★★★ 2

  Tom Cruise tries to kill himself every 7 minutes and 23 seconds.

  I actually timed it.

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  Review by 24framesofnick ★★★★ 11

  My girlfriend said “I am excited to see Jeremy Renner in this movie”

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  Review by SilentDawn ★★★★½ 8

  90

  Not enough credit is given to Brad Bird for not just reinvigorating the franchise, but also establishing a fresh new tone for the series going forward. This one feels so *right* in how it plays out. All of the globetrotting and gadgets and espionage is air-tight. Starting with the opening prison break, Ghost Protocol is quick, snappy, light on its feet. Genuinely funny moments throughout ("NO SHIT!") and the thrills still pump the adrenaline. Ethan Hunt running along the outside of the Burj Khalifa is just as jaw-dropping as ever.

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  Review by Wesley R. Ball ★★★★½ 2

  You don't know the meaning of stress until you've seen Tom Cruise scaling the Burj Khalifa.

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  Review by Josh Lewis ★★★★

  Sillier and broader, of course, but this is essentially a Bond film shot by Robert Elswit and the closest Cruise has ever gotten to Jackie Chan. Bird has a good eye for elegant, animated movements, the amount of flailing and falling in this is next level—also my man Ethan drives a car headfirst into a concrete floor. What's not to love?

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  Review by Matt Singer ★★★★½ 3

  The only problem with this movie is that parts of it are almost too good. The Burj Khalifa is still the series’ literal and figurative high point — but it’s not even the final action sequence in this movie. And Ethan’s team in Ghost Protocol might be the best crew of all the movies, but their chemistry highlights how bland this movie’s villain is, and how overmatched he seems, despite his supposed genius and nuclear weapons.

  About the Burj Khalifa: It’s not just that Tom Cruise hangs from the outside of the world’s tallest building. Tom Cruise does a lotta wacky shit in every one of these movies. It’s that Brad Bird et al. keep making the mission more impossible;…