FAQ

While on a mission to penetrate the Kremlin archives and obtain information about the identity of a terrorist known only as Cobalt, Impossible Missions Force (IMF) agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is implicated as the team leader in a plot to blow up the Kremlin, forcing the IMF to shut down. Invoking ghost protocol, Ethan and three other agents—Jane Carter (Paula Patton), Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg), and William Brandt (Jeremy Renner)—go rogue in an attempt to clear the IMF name and to find Cobalt, who has stolen Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is the fourth movie in the Mission: Impossible series which is based on a TV series also titled Mission impossible (1966) that ran from 1966 to 1973. Writing credits for Ghost Protocol are attributed to American screenwriters Josh Applebaum and André Nemec. Ghost Protocol is preceded by Mission: Impossible (1996), Mission: Impossible 2 (2000), and Mission: Impossible III (2006), and followed by Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) and Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018).

Dubai is a city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) located on the southeast coast of the Persian Gulf. Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

It was previously assumed that Ving Rhames would be reprising his role as IMF operative Luther Stickell in Ghost Protocol. Rhames reportedly stated: "I may be doing something very small in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, but I will just say that the budget changed dramatically and I'll leave it at that." Thus, it can be assumed that the budget wasn't big enough to include Rhames to reprise his role as a major IMF character.

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Yes. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol has select scenes filmed using IMAX cameras. IMAX cameras are the highest-resolution cinematographic cameras currently in existence, shooting at 16K to 18K (lines of resolution vertical), as opposed to the standard 2K to 4K.

A list:

From the opening scene to the prison scene: (1) a flashback to the failed IMF operation, (2) opening credits, (3) the destruction of the Kremlin, (4) the tone-setting shots of Dubai, (5) Ethan climbing across the glass, trying to cut a hole in the window and falling but climbing up again, (6) Ethan running across the surface of the building, (7) the sandstorm chase sequence, and (8) the movie's climax.