Gun shots are fired, a man runs, jumps and shoots while falling through the air. The intense opening sets the stage for the rest of the movie.  The movie is Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, the fourth of the Mission Impossible movies. It is directed by Brad Bird, this being his first live-action film.  The film is produced by Tom Cruise, J.J. Abrams, and Bryan Burk. It is written by Andre Nemec and Josh Appelbaum. The Movie stars Tom Cruise as the main character Ethan Hunt, and co-stars, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg and Paula Patton.  When a bomb destroys the Kremlin, in Russia, the IMF is blamed and the members are labeled as terrorists with the intent on starting a global nuclear war. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team must expose and unravel the conspiracy.

            In the opening scene, on assignment in Budapest to intercept a courier working for a person of interest code-named "Cobalt", IMF agent Trevor Hanaway is killed by assassin Sabine Moreau. Ethan Hunt is then seen lying on a bed in a Russian jail cell. Broken out by two other agents, Carter and Dunn, Hunt is then recruited to lead Carter and Dunn to infiltrate the secret Moscow Kremlin archives and locate files identifying Cobalt. During the mission, a bomb destroys the Kremlin. The IMF extracts Hunt from Moscow. The Russians have called the attack an undeclared act of war, and the US president activates "Ghost Protocol", which disavows the entire IMF. Hunt and his team are to take the blame for the attack, but while escaping from the government, the IMF secretary is shot and killed by the Russians, leaving Hunt and intelligence analyst William Brandt to find their own way out. The team identifies Cobalt as Kurt Hendricks, a Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist who plans to start a nuclear war. Hunt and his team of Carter, Dunn and Brandt must find and take down Hendricks before he receives the codes for the nuclear bombs, to start to war.

            Them most important, critical and intense scene in the movie takes place at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. This building is the tallest in the world. During this scene, Hunt and his team are intercepting the exchange of the codes for the nuclear bombs between Sabine Moreau and Kurt Hendricks. Ethan Hunt, in order to intercept the two must scale the building from the 106th floor to the 117th floor. What was most interesting about this scene is that Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt) performed his own stunts, from the same height on the actually building. During the actual scene, he climbs up on the outskirts using magnetic gloves the keep him attached. Not only is the scene dramatic and intense, but it is also the most crucial scene, for it sets up the interception of Kurt Hendricks, the man most wanted.

            With fast-action, gadgets, and free falling moments, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is an epic film which I recommend to any teenager and young adult. For younger audiences, the storyline may be confusing and not make sense. However for the older audiences, the film with be exciting and nonstop action. I do recommend being familiar with the other mission Impossible movies because many concepts and happenings in those movies tie-in with this fourth one. I liked the movie, one, because of the never ending action, and the way the action is displayed. Two, I enjoyed the movie because of how it all ties-in in the end. Many different parts of the earlier movies are explained, and many occurrences of the other movies make much more sense.