Review: Brad Bird's unique and precise vision elevates "Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol" to dizzying new heights
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Film Rating: A–
Brad Bird was born to direct a Mission: Impossible movie.
That fact becomes readily apparent five minutes into “Ghost Protocol,” as soon as one realizes that Bird has, indeed, committed to scoring a violent prison break sequence to the sounds of Dean Martin. No other director could infuse such brutal fight choreography with such a passio…
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