Accept Your Mission and Watch the First Trailer for Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol

"The president has initiated Ghost Protocol," intones an über-serious Tom Wilkinson at the start of the trailer for Mission: Impossible -- Ghost Protocol. "The entire IMF has been disavowed." Yikes! What happens now, super agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise)? "So, what happens now?" Yes -- just asked that question. Stop being difficult and just cue up some Eminem -- the first trailer for the fourth Mission: Impossible film is live and online.

Directed by Brad Bird, and starring Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Josh Holloway (early guess: bad guy), Paula Patton, Lea Seydoux, Michael Nyqvist, and a gun-toting Simon Pegg, the trailer for Ghost Protocol promises pretty much exactly what you've come to expect from the Mission: Impossible series: double crosses, disavowed agents, skyscraper shenanigans, sexy cars, sexier women, explosions, and Tom Cruise running away from something. Also, Tom Cruise dodging massive wrecked machinery -- in this case, a wrecked car. Fingers crossed Bird has as much fun in his live-action feature directorial debut as J.J. Abrams did with Mission: Impossible III, still one of the more under-rated summer blockbusters to come out in recent years.

VERDICT: Accepted.

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