Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol

     After one of her IMF agents is killed, Jane Carter calls on Ethan Hunt to help her and her tech savvy teammate to break into the Moscow Kremlin and locate files on "Cobalt", the criminal who her agent was trying to gain information on. In the middle of the mission, the Russians are alerted about Ethan and his team. After his teammates escape, a bomb destroys the Kremlin, and Ethan is arrested by a Russian agent, who believes he had something to do with the attack. Once Ethan escapes, he meets with the IMF secretary and intelligence analyst Brandt, where he learns of the plan for his crew to take the blame for the attacks. The government will then allow them to "escape" from custody and track down Cobalt. Suddenly, the vehicle they are meeting in is under attack and the IMF secretary is shot and killed. Ethan and Brandt escape, and Brandt later informs Ethan that Cobalt is a man named Kurt Hendricks, and he is planning to start a nuclear war. Hendricks blew up the Kremlin to obtain a Russian nuclear launch control device but still needs the activation codes from the assassin who killed Jane's agent. The team gets to the spot of the exchange before the meeting time and sets up two separate exchanges using advanced high-tech gadgets, so that they can get the activation codes without Hendricks or the assassin knowing that something is wrong. Everything goes smoothly, until the assassin identifies Brandt as an agent. After an intense battle Jane kills the assassin, and Ethan chases after Hendricks and the codes. Ethan and the team learn of a satellite Hendricks is planning to use to launch the missile. Hendricks sends the signal to launch the missile at San Francisco, then puts a virus in the server's system so that it can not be overridden. While the rest of his crew tries to get the servers back online, Ethan chases after Hendricks and the launch device. After fighting over the device, Hendricks jumps to his death with the device to make sure it launches. Benji and the rest of the team finally get the broadcast signal back online so it is up to Ethan to get to the launch device and deactivate it. After severely injuring himself from driving a car off the ledge down to where Hendricks had fallen, Ethan crawls to the launch device and deactivates it at the last second. The Russian agents get to the scene and see what Ethan has done, proving the IMF's innocence.
     This film was very entertaining and well put-together. All of the special effects and stunts, whether it was crawling up the side of the tallest building in Dubai or the huge explosions throughout the movie, were flawless and made you feel as if it was happening for real. The camera work throughout the stunts and explosion was also exceptional. Each stunt was shown from many different angles, revealing the true greatness of each stunt to the audience. The fight scenes also kept the audience engaged with quick cuts, and close-up action. And the classic Mission Impossible score has always been one of my personal favorites.