{"id":37938,"date":"2013-06-28T22:04:18","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T04:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/movie-review-mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-2011.html"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:07:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T23:07:22","slug":"movie-review-mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/28\/movie-review-mission-impossible-ghost-protocol-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol" (2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"
ust in time to head to the airport to pick up my lovely wife, I wrapped up the M:I franchise with the most recent installment. \u00a0I will definitely be watching it again.<\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011)<\/a>
\n The last\/most recent of the MI franchise, it’s popularly known as the best of the franchise — and while I liked M:I1 quite a bt, M:IGP has a great deal going for it: great action scenes, a villain and villainous plot worth the IMF, high drama as well as comedy, and … Well, it still has some flaws: the humor is, in fact, a bit overdone (the “oh, what could possibly go wrong now?” line is never said, but the sensibility and results are there), a…\n <\/p>\n

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ust in time to head to the airport to pick up my lovely wife, I wrapped up the M:I franchise with the most recent installment. \u00a0I will definitely be watching it again. A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) The last\/most recent of the MI franchise, it’s popularly known as the best … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol" (2011)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":37923,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/27\/movie-review-mission-impossible-3-2006.html","url_meta":{"origin":37938,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: "Mission: Impossible 3" (2006)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 27-Jun-13 9:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Makes up for the second movie quite a bit, with good direction, good music, decent action, and a reasonably complex plot. \u00a0A weak ending and weakly-tied ensemble keep it from being spectactular, but it's quite a reasonable action flick to take in, or even possibly watch again. 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