Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol

This movie had garnered so much of publicity that though we were not ready for X-mas yet, we made time for the movie. Yes, we saw the movie on a weekday two days before X-mas. It was a nice idea - catching a movie on a weekday. Both of us felt so relaxed - it was almost as if we were dating :D Also, we were seeing it at the new multiplex near our home, Cinemax @ Total.

About Cinemax @ Total:
The new multiplex is a hop, skip, jump away from my place. Wah! The Gold Class tickets are 200 bucks a head. Wah! Wah! The Gold Class seats are huge, very comfy, and simply fantastic. Double Wah! Wah!

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About the movie:
The MI movies always have some amazing stunts and this one does not fail to impress at all - in that department. Of course, in this movie the mega stunts are actually over and done with by the time we come to the intermission. Tom cruise looks seriously old in the escape scene at the hospital. However, in the last scene, he looks clean and yumm!! Its surprising how much damage unwashed hair can do to your looks :P

Waaah: Tom Cruise is good, yet again. I was very surprised to know that he has actually performed the stunt in Dubai and did not take the help of a stunt-double. They are simply aeons away in terms of technology wen it comes to film-making. Inspite of squinting real hard, I really could not see the wires that were holding Tom - fantastic! Story was ok. Both the Arien and self realized after a few minutes that the main villain, Kurt Hendricks (Michael Nyqvist) was actually the actor who played Blomkevist from "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo". He is older but is good as the villain. We had recently seen Jeremy Renner (William Brandt) in the movie "The Town". Good choices. Simon Pegg provided some comic relief and was perfect for the role he played.

Blaaah: Anil Kapoor, is not the villain as mentioned in various press releases, but can actually be described as an extra with a few dialogues. He plays the part of a foolish, rich, Indian businessman with an eye for the ladies. He is absolutely ridiculous. The scene supposedly shot in a parking lot in Mumbai, is very clearly not shot in India. While we have not yet reached tht level of spohistication wrt parking lots, the number plates of the cars also has not been modified. A colleague remarked that some of those cars have not even been launched in India. Attention to detail was clearly missing. When Tom Cruise mentions that they will be travelling to India, it almost sounds like an anti-climax punch dialogue which falls pathetically flat. WTH???!!

Worth watching once - if only to see the stunts!