Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol (2011) poster
2011 · action · thriller · spy

Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol

Directed by Brad Bird2h 13m2011
ElsewhereIMDb7.4566kRT93%Metacritic73TMDB7.111k
  • kinetic
  • extreme
Movie DNA

Neutral, breathless, extreme action / thriller, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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.

Our read · Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol (2011) reads as a neutral, breathless, grounded action · thriller · spy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want globe-trotting spy thrills with death-defying practical stunts.

ends triumphantyou’ll be fine aftera rollercoastergrips by minute 5attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violence

Skip it tonightYou want grounded realism or deep character drama over spectacle.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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