Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
Before we begin on Ghost Protocol (GP), let me point you to a previous opinion post I submitted about the at-the-time trilogy leading into GP here.
If you don’t want to look back at that post, then let me summarize it:
I didn’t like how MI2 and MI3 stood by themselves making no direct reference to the previous films. It forced some kind of a hard reset when evaluating the character of Ethan Hunt to where there were gaps in who he was. Was he always combat rated? Why did he grow his hair out? What happened to his boyish charm he used on Max the Arms Dealer?