Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks, who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop him ends in an explosion causing severe destruction to the Kremlin and the IMF to be implicated in the bombing, forcing the President to disavow them. No longer being aided by the government, Ethan and his team chase Hendricks around the globe, although they might still be too late to stop a disaster.

Ghost Protocol landed as the franchise's most purely enjoyable entry up to that point, with animation director Brad Bird's live-action debut drawing consistent praise for its command of physical space and escalating set pieces. Critics were nearly unanimous on the craftsmanship, though enthusiasm ranged from wholehearted to pleasantly surprised — some found it genuinely ingenious, others appreciated it as nothing more than slick, improbable fun.