Welcome To the Dead Parade #2: Intermission Impossible

Good day, folks! Just the Ticket is taking a brief intermission from the Dead Parade and trading zombies for ghosts with a review of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol.
Tom Cruise once again takes the role of Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt, this time leading the team of Paula Patton, Avengers star Jeremy Renner, and Shaun of the Dead's Simon Pegg (I guess we haven't strayed too far from zombies after all. Isn't that nice?).
The entire IMF has been disavowed as the result of a bombing at the Kremlin in Russia, and now Ethan and his team must dodge Russia's secret police force, several contract killers, and a few laws of physics to stop an evil genius from starting a global nuclear war.
The plot sounds like an episode from some ridiculous Saturday morning superhero cartoon because it is. Some of the action sequences are physically impossible and the success of the mission at film's end is due to an overdramatic final battle between Ethan and Cobalt (the evil genius in question) that culminates in some last-second blind luck.
That being said, it was just ridiculous enough to be entertaining, from the spectacular stunts and hand-to-hand combat to the comedic exchanges between Cruise and Pegg. M:I-GP is conceptually behind the times and ludicrously unbelievable, but no less worthwhile because of it.
B+GP

Stay tuned: Later in the week, I'll be issuing an update of the original Dead Parade #2, with an extra crazy night added into the fun.