This week, Ethan Hunt returns to save both the world and Tom Cruise’s career in Brad Bird’s 2011 spy thriller, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. Is this a high point for the franchise? Did Josh Holloway deserve better? Is every action sequence better when it’s scored with a Dean Martin track?

Content warning: gun violence, peril, heights

Unanswered Questions:

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• Does this Ethan make sense of the first three movies?
  
  
• Does this film improve the franchise’s record with women, or not?
  
  
• Why is Tom Wilkinson uncredited?
  

Further reading:

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• Disney’s Nine Old Men (Wikipedia)
  
  
• “Do The Bartman” (1991)
  
  
• The Iron Giant (1999)
  
  
• Tomorrowland (2015)
  
  
• Ayn Rand (Wikipedia)
  
  
• Objectivism
  
  
• Este Haim
  
  
• Playing With The Boys (Top Gun)
  
  
• Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
  
  
• The Last Star In Hollywood Definitive List Of Tom Cruise Films
  
  
• The Last Star In Hollywood: Production Schedule
  

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