Although it lacks some of its original slickness and more surprising twists, Ghost Protocol really breathes new life into the franchise.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is, in a word, awesome. Better than that, it is the first film in Tom Cruise's TV-to-feature series that I have enjoyed start to finish, beginning to end and for every single moment of its two hour-plus running time.

"Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol" is sheer hurtling mechanism-and it's great silly fun.

... delivers all the gadgets and disguises and stunts we’ve come to expect, and then some. The set pieces are spectacular and the ingenious locations—from Moscow to Mumbai—give us backdrops we’ve not seen in spy movies before.