It all starts with a scene where Tom Cruise ( Agent Hunt ) is being rescued from a prison in Moscow and is then briefed about a mission to intercept a document which was unsuccessfully completed by one of his team member. Paul Patten ( Agent Jane Carter ) tells Cruise that they need to get a document which consists of activation codes to launch a nuclear weapon to destroy the US. In this process Cruise, Paula , Simon Pegg ( Benji ) get inside the Kremlin ( Russia's Presidential Building ), Cruise tries to get tapes and archives from the Kremlin during which someone intercepts their radio and alerts the guards. This person also detonates bomb inside the Kremlin. Almost one part of Kremlin is being destroyed in this powerful explosion and Tom Cruise gets caught by the Russian Intelligence who conclude Cruise as the mastermind behind the explosion.
At this juncture Jeremy Renner ( Brandt, yes the guy who blew all of us with his powerful performance in the movie TOWN ) enters the team as an Analyst and joins Cruise, Paula, Simon in their mission to stop Michael Nyquist ( Kurt Hendrix ) from getting his hands on the access codes and launching a missile. To add some spice and to take the American audience out of their niche the team goes a bit international and travels to Dubai and India.
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Like all MI series Tom Cruise saves the planet from destruction :-) . Story is very simple but the detailing in the movie is very rich and accurate. The director has taken utmost caution to make his audience understand each and every move of what they do, this I guess is a gesture to attract some younger audience into the screens. Screenplay was very much predictable compared to its previous versions, even some of Indian movie screenplays have some twists and turns these days. But still the director has done an excellent job in having us not feel bored even a bit, yes the movie was 2:15 hours but still wasn't any boring.
The special effects in the movie were really good and this time Cruise had more gadgets to play with, few of which even made us think if they could even exist, don't miss the one they use inside the Kremlin to fool the guard - it was one of the highlights. Simon and Jeremy pair up to project some very good comical scenes even in the middle of a nerve wrenching action sequence.
Action sequences were made more logical and believable but then Tom Cruise who looks very old in this movie makes us think if it could actually be performed by a real person. You can't forget the fact, its actually been 15 + years since the first part of this series came out :) , and we cannot expect Tom Cruise to be like Rajinikanth who even at 64 years could still be projected as a 25 year ;) .
The Background score was beaming and lifted the screenplay and the sound effects were overwhelmingly powering the action sequence, don't miss the explosive effect of the Kremlin. The movie has been made exclusively for IMAX using an IMAX camera to offer extremely high detail to the viewers and has succeeded in it, I am glad they didn't make it in 3D which could have degraded detailing of some action sequences. The cinematography is on par with its screenplay and is very mention-able in a scene involving Cruise hanging outside Dubai's Burj Kalifa. I am surprised to see that Mumbai, India has so many luxury sports cars on the movie :) , at least they didn't show the slums and create an eeewww feeling to the audience.
Even though the story is a Very Old Soup, its served in a New Bowl made with State of the Art Titanium alloy and could still be consumed !
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