A new trailer for Brad Bird’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol has been released. The fourth installment in the espionage franchise finds Ethan Hunt and his new team going undercover to clear their organization’s name. If you missed the featurette we posted earlier showcasing Tom Cruise hanging off the tallest building in the world, click here to check it out.
Hit the jump to watch the new trailer. The film also stars Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Simon Pegg, Josh Holloway, Michael Nyqvist, and Tom Wilkinson. Previews for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol begin in select IMAX and conventional theaters on December 16th, with the film opening wide on December 21st.
While the trailer features some of the same action sequences we’ve seen before, I’m definitely getting that Mission: Impossible feeling now. Perhaps it’s because the release date is getting closer. Or maybe it’s the always-welcome humor of Simon Pegg also featured in the trailer. Or the way they’re trying to highlight Jeremy Renner’s character even more. Whatever they’re trying to do, it’s working. Yahoo has it in HD.
Below the footage is Christina’s reaction to seeing a few scenes in IMAX.
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 4 – GHOST PROTOCOL Footage Reaction
By Christina Radish
Upon seeing two action sequences that totaled just over 20 minutes of footage of Mission: Impossible 4 – Ghost Protocol, directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille), the thing that struck me most was just how effective it was to see that specific footage shot with IMAX cameras. Shot around the world – in Dubai, Mumbai, Prague, Russia, Vancouver and Los Angeles – the film has a truly international feel this time around, with the scenes that we saw taking place on the streets of Dubai, as well as the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.
This time around, IMF operative Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has been disavowed along with the rest of the agency when the President initiates ghost protocol, leaving him without any resources or backup, and with a team of fellow IMF fugitives (played by Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton and Simon Pegg, bringing much of the humor in the sequence), who have only each other to rely on. When things don’t go quite the way they’d hoped, Hunt is forced to scale the outside of the building with nothing but sticky gloves to help him. The sweeping shots from the top of the building down, not only made me feel the onset of motion sickness and vertigo because it really puts you right there, but it also emphasizes just how high up Tom Cruise is, and that it really is him doing the stunt work. It makes you realize how truly dedicated he is to make the heart-stopping action as real as possible. Although I know Tom Cruise is alive and well, and currently filming another movie in Pittsburgh right now, his return descend still admittedly made my heart skip a beat.
The second sequence had Hunt literally in the middle of a sandstorm, fighting the elements with no clear line of sight, dodging a flipping car and doing everything he can to hunt down the bad guy. While this didn’t have the obvious danger of Cruise dangling more than 100 floors up in the air, it was equally as heart-stopping, as you never know where or when the danger will come.
The film opens in theaters nationwide on December 21st, but I highly recommend catching it in IMAX five days early, when it debuts on December 16th. I have a feeling that you won’t be sorry.
Here’s the official synopsis for Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol:
This is not just another mission. The IMF is shut down when it’s implicated in a global terrorist bombing plot. Ghost Protocol is initiated and Ethan Hunt and his rogue new team must go undercover to clear their organization’s name. No help, no contact, off the grid. You have never seen a mission grittier and more intense than this.
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Trailer is fantástico.Esse will be a spectacular movie.
Sorry if English is not very good. I’m Brazilian and I’m learning English.
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Really? Cause the punctuation, word usage (Spanish and English), and spelling are all correct. Seems like your an English speaker trying to speak spanglish… weird. Why do people do this?
Other than “esse”, I should say. (should be “ese”)
Yeah, it’s amazing how they speak Portuguese in Brazil and not Spanish.
We were colonized by Portugal
That movie is going to be awesome. You can see that every dime is on the screen.
You’ll believe that Tom Cruise can jump over a car!
Paula Patton flaunts her sexy new post-pregnancy curves in this movie which probably added to her performance in delicious and wonderful ways.
Oh shut up.
Bro, never tell a lady to shut up when she’s talking about sexy curves. Rule No. 1.
Shut your pie hole…bro
Thanks Tom and you are really Rockstar.
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Woohoo!! Paula Patton looks like a strong, empowered and sexy IMF agent. Hahah.. freakin’ fantastic, can’t wait! Man! I feel like a woman!
Every Mission: Impossible movie is set in its own alternate reality/universe.
so what’s the Rabbit Foot from M:I III then?
This might be the best movie in the series
Awesome trailer! I loved all three movies and this time around I’m sure I’m gonna love it even more because of Brad Bird. But one thing is not clear in my mind.
Is this a prequel?
If it is a sequel where is Julia? aka Ethan’s wife?
I got high hopes… lets wait and see.
I remember an early interview with Brad Bird where he pointed out what was interesting about the series to him was that, without planning it, a new director had been brought in on every film to do their vision without consequence regarding the other installments. He talked about how the series was completely unique, even from Bond, in that it was somewhat of director’s showcase. So I’m assuming this film will be it’s own thing. It would be funny, though, if after Ethan went through everything he mentioned that he had to get home to his wife (I can just feel the silent wave of a big audience, “Oh yeah, he has a wife.”)
Brad Birds got quite a record. The Iron Giant, The Incredibles, Ratatouille and now mission impossible, noway can this disappoint.
And forget the wife, just one of J.J Abrams undeveloped, not good, heart string pulling ideas.
I am totally sold! Huge hit!!
the trailer looks amazing.
that running on the skyscraper shot? ABSOLUTELY the best action sequence i EVER saw
so when Renner says to Cruise “We all have our secrets”, there’s no gay subtext there at all, right? Cause, you know…Renner and Cruise… Right…didn’t think so.
Also, how many studio plants can one message board safely carry before it becomes absolutely ridiculous? If I didn’t know better, I’d think Collider had been bought up by the Scientologists. No one – and I mean no one, is that jazzed about this movie (check out the comments about the trailer on slashfilm.com for a more balanced impression). You look like a bunch of clowns when you try and blatantly juice a picture this way. Try exercising little tact next time around.
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Collider: for the Tom Cruise, by the Tom Cruise?
I was thinking the same thing. All of these movie blogs are basically stooges for the studios but some (like this one) are full-on whores. Tom Cruise hasn’t been relevant in ages. I guess this movie might be exciting for (late) middle aged women and gay dudes. I guess people in foreign countries still think of him as famous. Maybe these are the people commenting here. I’ve never once heard anyone under the age of 35 utter the name Tom Cruise. I don’t think college kids even know who he is.
So if I want to to see a movie Tom Cruise is in, that makes me a Scientologist?
Your logic is sound my friend.
that or it makes you the kind of dude that likes sword fighting in the men’s room.
I honestly don’t care about the whole Scientologist stuff (FTR, I don’t know nor do I want to know what it is). But that is not going to stop me from seeing the work that went into this film. Plus, everyone has their own personal beliefs, right? So I really don’t think it should be that big of an issue.
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More like Call Of Duty 4:The Movie.Hell,even the music sounds similar to the trailer.
This movie looks like something we should all see.
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