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Here's one of the year's biggest surprises: Business: Impossible Ghost Protocol, improbably the series' best entrance since its first entertaining, exciting and well-made action-adventure picture.

The Mission: Unimaginable series is based on the 1960s TV show and Brian DePalma's 1996 big, followed by two sequels in 2000 and 2006.

The plot is the usual globe-trotting wonderful-adventure, jumping from Russia to Dubai to Bombay and back to America with lots of excite the curiosity of and explosions at every stop. Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt, and this time his crew consists of Jeremy Renner (from The Hurt Locker), Paula Patton, and Simon Pegg, who reprises his facetious relief role from the third film as a computer geek. They're trying to stop a duo of Russian supervillains from site off nuclear war.

Sure, it's a formula, borrowed from the earlier films, as well as its English cousin James Handcuffs: spy intrigue, gadgets, disguises and elaborate action set pieces. But Ghost Usage executes it nearly perfectly, largely thanks to an expert effect touch by a director who's never even done it before. It's also always photographed both brilliantly and coherently.

Source: Patch.com