The IMF – Impossible missions force? Improbable? Improvisational? Yes! All of the above. After the last installment we find a new crew arranging a prison break for our inevitable hero – Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise). The next mission should he decide to accept it – break into the Kremlin and steal information about “Cobalt”. Unfortunately, Cobalt (Michael Nyst) is a step ahead of them and has arranged to blow up the Kremlin while making it look like Hunt’s team is responsible. As a result the President is forced to initiate “Ghost Protocol”, total disavowment of the IMF and its agents. A final meeting with the secretary in which Hunt is to be charged with the Kremlin bombing results in a new assignment with a pre-assembled team and “forgotten” resources.

The new crew is comprised of Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg) in charge of technical gadgets and wizardry, sultry and seductive Agent Jane Carter (Paula Patton), and William Brandt (Jeremy Renner) assistant to the secretary and failed field agent blasted back into the field.

Their mission: Stop Cobolt from receiving a list of nuclear trigger codes from assassin Sabine Moreau (Léa Seydoux) so that he can’t start nuclear annihilation. Along the way Carter has to seduce a billionaire to get a satellite code. No easy task in a game of hide and seek through a palatial home. Benji becomes responsible for catching Brandt when he jumps to reach the core of a computer. “Should work…”. And Ethan has to go outside the box until he reaches the end of his rope.

“Murphy” seems to be in charge as just about everything that can go wrong does and at the worst possible moment. High tech equipment fails. People arrive before expected. Disguises falter resulting in real face to face meetings.  Desert sandstorms blow in. What did happen to that stupid glove? Even “The Message” fails to self destruct. Good thing Ethan hit it.

Tom Cruise delivers his usual thrilling action. Simon Pegg (of Paul, Hot Fuzz, Sean of the Dead), however, provides his usual level of comedy preventing the commission of a serious movie. This is the funniest mission ever.

A must see for “Impossible” fans and all others, “Ghost Protocol” has something for everybody – humor, action, explosions, and one of the craziest car crashes that has to be seen to be believed. Thankfully the airbags worked.