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Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol

This one takes the cake. Tom Cruise and Anil Kapoor in the same flick. The latter has what could best be described as a cameo and does not get to interact with the Top Gun himself but his female sidekick, who is trying to disrobe in the midst of turbaned guests. From an impossible plot to scenes from Red Square and Hollywood studioed Kremlin to Dubai and its dust storms to the bustle of Mumbai albeit with Telugu scripts on doorways (man are these gultees now invading Mumbai in droves - displacing the yokels from UP?), this one is a ridiculous comedy of errors that leaves nothing to imagine. Loud explosions and car chases and crashes later we learn that the nuclear codes are once again in the hands of the lunatics with strange accents, rolling around in a tacky mockup of an Indian five star hotel. Secure servers, sewers and clouds not withstanding a person with an English accent magically cracks through the most bizzare firewalls to solve the world's problem (that of getting blown to smithereens or whatever you blow to when a nuke goes off). The mission should you choose to accept it is to pay good money to watch this nonsensical fizzer!
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  1. RajendraApril 19, 2012 at 5:10 AM

    Such missions should be outsourced to India, where a few dishum dishums is all it takes..much cheaper than blowing up half the world to save the other half.

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