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Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (also known as Mission: Impossible IV, or Mission: Impossible IV – Ghost Protocol) is a 2011 American action film. It is the fourth film in the Mission: Impossible series. It stars Tom Cruise, who reprises his role of IMF Agent Ethan Hunt, and is director Brad Bird's first live-action film.[5] Ghost Protocol was written by André Nemec and Josh Appelbaum, and produced by Cruise, J. J. Abrams (the third film's director) and Bryan Burk. It saw the return of the first film's editor, Paul Hirsch, and is also the first Mission: Impossible film to be partially filmed using IMAX cameras. The film was released in North America by Paramount Pictures on December 16, 2011.
Upon release, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol became a critical and commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing Mission: Impossible film, and the highest-grossing film starring Tom Cruise.
In Budapest to intercept a courier working for a person code-named "Cobalt", IMF
agent Trevor Hanaway is killed by assassin Sabine Moreau. Hanaway's
team leader, Jane Carter, and newly promoted field agent Benji Dunn
extract Ethan Hunt and Hunt's source Bogdan from a Moscow prison. Hunt is recruited to lead Carter and Dunn to infiltrate secret Moscow Kremlin
archives and locate files identifying Cobalt. During the mission,
someone broadcasts across the IMF frequency, alerting the Russians to
Hunt's team. Although Dunn and Carter escape, a bomb destroys the
Kremlin, and Russian agent Sidorov arrests Hunt, suspecting him as part
of the attack.
The IMF extracts Hunt from Moscow. The Russians have called the
attack an undeclared act of war, and the US president activates "Ghost
Protocol", a black operation
contingency that disavows the IMF. Hunt and his team are to take the
blame for the attack, but will be allowed to escape from government
custody in order to track down Cobalt. Before Hunt can escape, the IMF's
secretary is killed by Russian security forces led by Sidorov, 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. Hendricks bombed the Kremlin in order to acquire a Russian nuclear launch-control device; however, he now needs the activation codes from the Budapest courier in order to launch a nuclear missile at the US.
The exchange between Moreau and Hendricks's right-hand man, Wistrom, is due to take place at the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
There, Hunt's team members separately convince Moreau and Wistrom that
they have made the exchange with one another. However, Moreau identifies
Brandt as an agent. While Hunt chases Wistrom—only to realize that
Wistrom is actually Hendricks in disguise, escaping with the
codes—Carter detains Moreau. Moreau attempts to kill the inexperienced
Dunn, and Carter kicks her out a window to her death. Brandt accuses
Carter of compromising the mission for revenge against Moreau, but Hunt
accuses Brandt of keeping secrets from them, as he has displayed
fighting skills atypical of an analyst. While Hunt seeks more
information from Bogdan, Brandt admits that he was assigned as security
detail to Hunt and his wife Julia while they were on vacation in Croatia.
While Brandt was on patrol, Julia was killed by a Serbian hit squad,
prompting Ethan to pursue and kill them before he was caught by the
Russians and sent to prison.
Bogdan and his arms-dealer cousin inform Hunt that Hendricks will be in Mumbai.
Hendricks facilitated the sale of a defunct Soviet military satellite
to Indian telecommunications entrepreneur Brij Nath. The satellite could
be used to transmit the order to fire a missile. While Brandt and Dunn
infiltrate the server room
to deactivate the satellite, Carter gets Nath to reveal the satellite
override code. But Hendricks has anticipated Hunt's plan and turns off
Nath's servers before sending a signal from a television broadcasting
tower to a Russian nuclear submarine in the Pacific to fire at San Francisco.
Hunt pursues Hendricks and the launch device while the other
team-members attempt to bring the broadcast station back online. Hunt
and Hendricks fight over the launch-control device before Hendricks
jumps to his death with it to ensure the launch. Dunn kills Wistrom,
allowing Brandt to restore power to the station and enabling Hunt to
deactivate the missile, while the fatally wounded Hendricks witnesses
the failure of his plan. Hunt is then confronted by Sidorov, who sees
Hunt has stopped the missile, proving the IMF is innocent in the Kremlin
bombing.
The team reconvenes weeks later in Seattle. Hunt introduces the team to longtime colleague Luther Stickell
and then issues new assignments. Dunn and Carter accept, but Brandt
refuses. Hunt reveals that Julia's death was staged, as he knew he could
not protect her, and used her death as a pretext to infiltrate the
prison and get close to Bogdan, an IMF source on Hendricks. Relieved of
guilt, Brandt accepts his mission while Hunt watches Julia from afar.
They share a smile before he embarks on his next mission.
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