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The domestic trailer is set to debut in front of Tranformers: Dark of the Moon this week. Tom Cruise’s Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol is directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles) for release December 16th. The film co-stars Ving Rhames, Jeremy Renner, Paula Patton, Vladimir Mashkov, Michael Nyqvist, Josh Holloway, Simon Pegg, Lea Seydoux, and Anil Kapoor. Since some of you were wondering, that’s Dubai’s Burj Kahlifa, tallest building in the world.
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The trailer was awesome. Fun, action-packed, and featuring a great cast. Great to see Tom Cruise back in action.
First off, let me say thanks to Paramount for doing the right thing and releasing the trailer on the Internet same time as in theaters — that way, the first time we see the trailer isn’t some bootleg iPhone video posted on youtube. Second, I say this trailer ROCKED. I love the M:I franchise. I think this one hits all the right notes — Cruise back in form, Paula Patton (SO HOT!), Renner, Halloway and Wilkenson are great additions. LOVE that Brad Bird is doing this. So, so psyched.
Couldn’t agree more.
Agree. And I totally don’t understand why studios release trailers in theatres before on YT (as they’ve done, I believe, with the new Pixar movie, ‘Brave’) – what’s the point? Having a trailer available but not putting it on YT is just wasting precious marketing time when you could be getting 100k+ hits a day on YT. That strategy confuses me.
Haha. I love all the nasty comments. What studio are you guys posting for?
The trailer looks fantastic.
Works great…until the vocal when it’s crying out for the MI theme to be cranking it. Still, love the set up (someone blew up the Kremlin? Wonder how that’ll play in Russia) although I think I’ve seen the skyscraper stunts before. Still, I’m there opening weekend!
The trailer looks great – no matter though, ’cause it’s all about the film – as long as they’re not chasing some doomsday device that’s never explained, (MI3) it’ll be a good time for me!
Same old, same old. I don’t know I still think they should move away from Sherlock Holmes 2.
Can everyone please put down their snark sippy cups? Geez people, it’s a trailer!
Not a great trailer. But I hope the movie’s awesome. The monologue in the beginning was confusing. My first thought was “what does the international monetary fun have to do with the kremlin blowing up?”
It’s so predictable: all the Tom Cruise haters already have their comments written before they even roll the trailer. It wouldn’t have mattered what was in it – they were ready to trash it.
For those of you who didn’t notice that the movie doesn’t come out till Dec. – this is just the first trailer and it does exactly what a first trailer is supposed to do, which is get everyone jazzed about a new M:I movie starring Tom Cruise. And this did that – in spades.
They have plenty of time to cut a second trailer that focuses on the story elements, if they so choose. (And speaking for myself, they don’t need it: I’m there.)
Brad Bird directing, JJ producing, Nemec and Applebaum writing – a lot of talent there, folks.
Only thing that didn’t make sense here: no Ving. That I honestly don’t understand.
Do you think Tom Cruise has a rider in his contract which requires a certain number of frames must be devoted to running scenes. It is possible one could make short of all his running sequences from his complete body of work.
Not overwhelmed…but willing to have faith in Brad Bird’s storytelling. As other posters have clearly stated…it’s early in the process…
It’s cause his character dies, duh.
I love Brad Bird and know him to have a strong, uncompromising artistic vision. But let’s get real, who is really “directing” this movie? Cruise has approvals on everything, so I wonder just who’s vision is at play here. And while the Paramount PR machine worked overtime to let the world see Cruise rappelling on that building last fall,is every IMF film contractually obligated to show Cruise running in front of a massive explosion then blown past camera? A detonation of that size that close would blow out your eardrums if not every effing blood vessel in your head. Enough already.
Hoo-rahh! Finally a movie this year with pair of balls.
P.S. Who remembers the original Mission Impossible. And I don’t mean movie.
Can any of you naysayers stop tearing down anything with mass long enough to actually enjoy a honking loud, action blockbuster?
Movies like that are what inspire people to crawl out of impoverished hellholes on the other side of the world to come to America and follow their dreams. Not to mention that big, nonsensical, over-the-top spectacles with ungainly names like Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol are what enables studios to finance all the Cinema that you’re all so devoted to.
And I hope this puts Cruise back on top so all you bums can go tell some other internationally famous, billion dollar grossing, 30+ year career, Oscar nominated movie star he sucks.
Amen to that.
Preach.
Looking good and there is hopefully more depth to the plot than touched upon.
It’s without argument that this MI4 trailer succeeds in providing to audiences re-boots of action sequences that have been linked iconically with previous MI films to give them a fanhood familiarity; an obvious choice in the film and marketing. Yet udiences do see that technique in numerous franchises ranging from watching Indiana Jones in a fist fight on a fast moving Nazi truck to Autobots grabbing Shia before he gets killed in some CGcentric way.
What stands out most here are the dynamics of the cast to provide some multi-domensionality to MI4 so that TC doesn’t have to be the only bird on the wire. Pegg will hopefully provide what he does best and Renner will give MI4 a much needed edge to put some dirt under the nails of a franchise that prides itself a bit too much in its polish.
That was the worst trailer of all M:I movies, mainly because of that awful song. I honestly had to watch it twice and the second time without music to fully appreciate the images.
This said, it looks average, there are no real spectacular scenes that stand out like in the trailers for the previous movies. If you don’t believe me just rewatch the other trailers, they all had at least one cool looking money shot in it.
P.S.Free advice for the PR guys, just use the M:I theme for the next trailer (and I mean for the full trailer and not just for a small fragment at the end). The third movie underperforming had nothing to do with the song or with the movie itself.
Trailer looked pretty insane; obviously not story-heavy, but clearly not supposed to be.
Regardless, no one can disagree that Tom Cruise kicks the s*** out of an action movie and the guy is practically 50 years old.
And the stunt on the Burj Kahlifa, the tallest building in the world, is not CGI and he did it himself.
http://www.wwtdd.com/2010/11/tom-cruise-is-a-pro-2/
http://www.wwtdd.com/2010/11/tom-cruise-is-still-braver-and-or-dumber-than-me/
The movie may end up being terrible, but that’s still pretty impressive.
As I said, Brad Bird = very good. But a trailer with little story and a razor thin sort-of narrative about ‘secrets’? Lame. Brad Bird surely knows a great paycheck, and a great challenge, when he sees it, so there’s no doubt why he signed on. If Tom Cruise called you and said, direct MI4, would you turn him down, even if you are Brad Bird?
Also, Eminem? What does his music have to do with international espionage/sabotage? Umm, I know, nothing.
Wow that looks like is was shot great, very stylish, with some amazing action scenes! And Damn Tom Cruise doing his own stunts man that guy is Amazing!
Like the feel of the film from the trailer. It will be sleeper hit of DEC that’s for sure.
peace out!
The last movie theater in my neighborhood closed two weeks ago, and now the “closest” movie theater is some 20 miles away, and I’m not going to brave wintry weather to see Tom Cruise kick ass & take names (even though the trailer looks great, the addition of an Eminem song seemed a bit “off”, imo).
M:I 4 will be another movie I’ll be adding to my DVD collection.
Move.
Awesome trailer, really makes me excited to go see this film. While I’m sure there plenty of people who genuinely dislike the trailer I suspect there’s a contingent of people who are simply going to trash it simply because it stars Tom Cruise. It’s a great trailer and with Brad Bird directing this I have a lot of faith in the final product.
Another slam dunk smash hit for Cruise! Fantastic!
Jagshemash! We’re having give much thank you to Deadline Hollywood for showing us these impossible mission in such glorious 240p definition!
It looks really good! But, I’m not sure those defending the trailer should keep throwing Brad Bird’s name around like it means something in live action…at least for now. He made cartoons…really good ones, but animated films that he could tinker with for four years. That said, I wouldn’t be shocked if he delivered a good movie.
Looks great to me..but why is this coming out in December. This should have been a summer tentpole..
Looks promising, curious to see how Bird does with big budget live action. Ratatouille and Incredibles were two of Pixar’s best, hopefully he takes that skill and turns it in a great action flick.
Sold.