Movie Review: Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Last night we saw a silly movie.  This one was sillier than most.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is a dumb movie.  Sheerly dumb.  Dumb enough that it distracts from the action sequences.  The viewer is left thinking, during the action scenes, "Where did that come from?  How come the professor is a martial expert on par with the much younger Ethan Hawke?  Why is it that chicks who fight in movies have huge boobs?  How can a random piece of electronics dropped in a ventilation shaft upload a general's security profile?  And why do they call it downloading when it's actually uploading?'

The premise was pretty good.  The beginning is intriguing.  About 1/3 of the way through, the script gets measurably worse.  And it maintains a steady, edge-of-your-seat worserness as the movie progress.  Impossibly worser.  And the further along the movie goes, the more broken the whole movie becomes.  By the end, it has become a montage of crazy action sequences that happen to add up to about 2 hours.  And that's it.

Too bad - I like PG-13 action flicks.  The recent James Bond, Batman, and Bourne movies have all been excellent.  We even enjoyed Sherlock Holmes.   But don't waste your time on MI: Ghost Protocol.  Let it rest in peace.