Mission accomplished: Fourth film 'cruising' for success
Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol is a terrific thriller with
action sequences that function as a kind of action poetry. The
best one has Tom Cruise hanging more than 100 stories up on the
glass windows of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the world's tallest
building. He has been equipped with gloves that cling when you
slam them against the surface and release when you kinda curl
them back.  Tricky enough in concept alone. But it has been
claimed that Cruise "insisted on doing his stunts himself." Say
what? The character Ethan Hunt is seen like a human fly clinging
to glass thousands of feet in the air, and you're telling me we
aren't looking at CGI? If that's really Tom Cruise, he seems
like a suitable case for treatment.  If it is or isn't, the
sequence is one of the most spellbinding stretches of film I've
seen. In the way it's set up, photographed and edited, it
provided me and my vertigo with scary fascination. The movie has
other accomplished set pie