Nicholson wears her erudition lightly, her swift, pared prose allowing the resonances of Cruise’s career to sneak up on you.
Okay, so audiences still aren’t ready for De Palma’s operatic visual sensibilities, but surely critics must be on board by now, right?
The screenwriters are savvy enough to acknowledge that audiences have moved on from Ethan Hunt and the IMF.
Understanding Screenwriting #89: Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol, The Descendants, My Week with Marilyn, & More
by Tom Stempel
If we had been more emotionally involved with Hunt in this film, we might have found it more moving.