Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : New York Daily News
Do yourself a favor: Don't.

Name : Jesse Hassenger / Alias : AV Club
Rather than offer any insight into what it's like living in arguably the most remote section of New York City, the movie focuses its energy on forcing Phillips and Pearlman to re-enact Superbad.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
A movie that won't knock you out with originality but may charm you with its wit.

Name : Gary Goldstein / Alias : Los Angeles Times
A refreshingly old school coming-of-age comedy with just enough raunchiness, stoner humor and otherwise dubious behavior to divert movie audiences weaned on violated pies and superbad high jinks.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
For about 90 minutes or so, Rogue Nation is grandly exciting. But in the final half-hour, McQuarrie makes a critical mistake: He starts taking this enjoyable nonsense seriously.

Name : Soren Anderson / Alias : Seattle Times
The plot is simply an excuse to show off all that whiz-bang technology.

Name : Glenn Kenny / Alias : MSN Movies
.it's pretty much state-of-the-art.

Name : Tom Huddleston / Alias : Time Out
Tom Cruise goes through the motions in this diverting but empty blockbuster.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : New York Daily News
It's full of attractive people, gorgeous locations, loathsome bad guys and a pounding score that ties it all together. This is what the "Fast and Furious" movies want to be, and the Bond pictures used to.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Bird has done a stylish and involving job here, turning in an entertaining production that's got considerable visual flair, especially in its action-heavy Imax sections.

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
There's a good chance you'll get so caught up in what they're doing, you won't even notice how stiff and inhuman the actors appear.

Name : Keith Phipps / Alias : AV Club
Bird brings a scary amount of assurance to Ghost Protocol. His action scenes are clean, coherent, thrilling, and visceral.

Name : David Edelstein / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation doesn't have the nonsensical lyricism of Brad Bird's stupendous Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, but it's still pretty good.

Name : Kerry Lengel / Alias : Arizona Republic
McQuarrie delivers a tense, eye-popping amusement-park ride that's almost as exciting as it is forgettable.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
Ghost Protocol is a very good thrill ride and Cruise is better than he's been in a long time.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Rogue Nation, like the similarly propulsive Ghost Protocol, often feels like a pure instrument of fun, dragging Hunt through an ongoing series of precarious situations.

Name : Chris Vognar / Alias : Dallas Morning News
The literal and figurative high point of Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol comes at about the halfway point, in and around the tallest building in the world in Dubai.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
There's a difference between velocity and momentum, and while the chases, shootouts and close-quarters combat rarely flag, our interest does.

Name : Lou Lumenick / Alias : New York Post
A largely successful attempt to reboot the moribund franchise that turns out to be probably the most entertaining installment since Brian De Palma's series opener from 15 years ago.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
"Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" is industrial-strength, stunt-stuffed, thoroughly soulless, yet eminently watchable cinema.

Name : Jocelyn Noveck / Alias : Associated Press
It shouldn't surprise you by now to hear that Cruise apparently flirted with on-set danger here, too. And it's impossible to deny that this knowledge adds to the fun.

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
Doesn't do anything particularly wrong inasmuch as it overdoes something right - by the time we reach the final chase/shoot-out/hand-to-hand combat set piece, a bit of ice-cream-headache fatigue has begun to set in.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
Immersive, unpredictable and crammed with more sharp plot hooks than a fishing basket. It's one of the best wide-release movies of the summer.

Name : Mick LaSalle / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
McQuarrie devises a film that's a succession of riveting sequences, filmed in a way that's active and yet elegant.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
Gets back to action basics with globe-trotting, nifty gadgets, high-flying stunts and less loquacious villainy.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is top-notch popcorn entertainment, chock-full of dazzling stunts and heroic moments, played out at a near-hysterical pitch.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Ghost Protocol is big and brassy, doing many of the things its predecessors did but, in the words of Nigel Tufnel, turning them up to "11."

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
This is Cruise's show and the actor brings the role a startling athletic grace and becoming maturity. If someone asks you what a true movie star is, point to Cruise.

Name : Owen Gleiberman / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Powered by Cruise's moxie, Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol proves that in a Hollywood action-ride culture drenched in fake adrenaline, it's cathartic to encounter the real thing.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
The most assured and satisfying of the five so far .

Name : Richard Corliss / Alias : TIME Magazine
I'm thinking it, so I might as well say it: Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is no Fast Five.

Name : Amy Biancolli / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol was directed by Brad Bird (The Incredibles), whose first stab at a live-action feature preserves the buzzy exhilaration and carefree absurdity of a cartoon.

Name : Steven Rea / Alias : Philadelphia Inquirer
Though not quite as front-to-finish satisfying as J.J. Abrams' Mission: Impossible III, Bird's installment nonetheless rocks.

Name : Rene Rodriguez / Alias : Miami Herald
The wait for a great action movie is finally over. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol is pure popcorn of the highest, most flavorful order, and it's good for you, too.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
The Intense Tom Cruise Face - you know the expression I mean, where he looks like he's about to explode and/or start yelling, but doesn't - makes frequent appearances, as does the trademark arm-chopping Tom Cruise Run.

Name : Liam Lacey / Alias : Globe and Mail
[A] big, shiny, ever-moving toy of a movie.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
At age 53, Tom Cruise is still a credible action hero. But this time, Rebecca Ferguson really gives him a run for his money, and his heart.

Name : Stephen Whitty / Alias : Newark Star-Ledger
The eye-candy - from high-tech gadgets to gorgeous people - has only been ratcheted up. And so has the excitement.

Name : Chris Klimek / Alias : NPR
The most reliable blockbuster series going: Five films, some weirder than others, but not a stinker in the bunch.

Name : Manohla Dargis / Alias : New York Times
"Rogue Nation" is pretty much like most of the "Impossible" movies in that it's an immense machine that Mr. McQuarrie, after tinkering and oiling, has cranked up again and set humming .

Name : David Denby / Alias : New Yorker
"Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol" is sheer hurtling mechanism-and it's great silly fun.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
Of the many heists and grabs that litter the movie, none is as blatant as the deft, irrepressible manner in which Ferguson, displaying a light smile and a brisk way with a knife, steals the show.

Name : Brian Truitt / Alias : USA Today
The action bonanza gets a little lost in its own spycraft, but offers action scenes both fast and furious and a fabulous couple of additions to the world of the IMF (short for Impossible Mission Force, obviously).

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
At once questioning and reaffirming the pleasures of cinematic espionage, this is the rare sequel that leaves its franchise feeling not exhausted but surprisingly resurgent at 19 years and counting.

Name : Nick Pinkerton / Alias : Village Voice
If the M:I films are immune to the tarnish on the Cruise brand, it's precisely because their spectacle requires us to be impressed by Ethan Hunt, not to like him.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
You'll never see Cruise playing an effortless comic book immortal - his characters are at their best when their backs are to the wall.

Name : Christopher Orr / Alias : The Atlantic
You don't overcome the "impossible" by thinking it over a little more carefully. You overcome it through the application of sheer, unvarnished willpower, a quality that Cruise has always possessed in abundance.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
At the age of 53 Mr. Cruise continues to give his all to these films, and his all in this latest episode is more than enough.

Name : Joe Williams / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
[Bird] applies the pacing and spatial freedom of a 'toon to a live-action thriller.

Name : Kyle Smith / Alias : New York Post
"Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" is a sigh of defeat. Now Tom's only goal is to give us a kickboxing fight or a motorcycle chase every eight minutes, and hope for the best.

Name : Robert Wilonsky / Alias : Dallas Morning News
This is comfort-food cinema. Gorge on the endless buffet.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, whose action movie skills are at best high-adequate, compensates by being good at interpersonal stuff. He can make us feel for the characters as something more than action toys.

Name : Barry Hertz / Alias : Globe and Mail
Everything, even Alec Baldwin's tight and itchy turn as a CIA buzzkill, is mere window-dressing to Cruise's attempts to kill himself on-screen.

Name : William Goss / Alias : Film.com
Just as newly gritty heroes seem to have run their course (fingers crossed), Cruise and Bird are doing their damnedest to maintain the escapist thrills that we as audiences will always choose to accept.

Name : Peter Travers / Alias : Rolling Stone
Cruise fires up everything he has as actor and athlete, showing that Mission: Impossible still has gas in its tank even when its engine sputters.

Name : Ian Buckwalter / Alias : NPR
This film exists purely to dazzle and thrill, and by that measure, it delivers expertly, never lagging despite a lengthy 133-minute running time.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Boston Globe
In its way, the movie has old-Hollywood elegance. The scope and sets are vast, tall, and cavernous, but Bird scales down for spatial intimacy.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
Five movies in, Cruise has perfected the M:I formula - a simple spy story, passable character comedy, and extremely long, impressively sustained action sequences.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
Manages to be a pretty good time for much of its overgenerous 132 minutes.

Name : Randy Myers / Alias : San Jose Mercury News
After taking a few stabs at the right formula, the series has finally found its voice, and Ethan Hunt and company give James Bond a real run for his blockbuster money.

Name : James Berardinelli / Alias : ReelViews
Hopefully, the reception will be positive because, on the strength of this outing, a sixth big-screen impossible mission is warranted.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
The real mission is to renew a stale franchise, and here Ghost Protocol largely succeeds, on the strength of good action scenes - including an IMAX-enhanced Dubai skyscraper dangle by Cruise - and the good humour of a well-chosen cast.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
The most exciting action flick of the year, by a huge margin.

Name : Cary Darling / Alias : Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
The franchise has a lot in common with Old Faithful: it's a popular attraction; predictable as clockwork; and features acts of nature - a geyser of boiling water in one case, Tom Cruise's abs in the other - that remain impressive after all these years.

Name : Joe Morgenstern / Alias : Wall Street Journal
It's not the generic plot that's so memorable, even though its convolutions are clever enough, or the cast of mostly interesting characters, but the surreal swirl of form and color that frequently fills the enormous screen.

Name : Chris Nashawaty / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Rogue Nation may not be the best, the tightest, or even the most logically coherent M:I flick, but there should be more movies like it: relentlessly thrilling, smart entertainments .

Name : Alonso Duralde / Alias : TheWrap
It's a rousing gasp machine that gives the flagging franchise the kick in the pants it sorely needed, and it marks the most impressive segue from cartoons to features since Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
As much as Cruise dominates "Rogue Nation," it's his co-star, Rebecca Ferguson, who emerges as the film's true and most memorable revelation.

Name : Roger Ebert / Alias : Chicago Sun-Times
"Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" is a terrific thriller with action sequences that function as a kind of action poetry.

Name : Ann Hornaday / Alias : Washington Post
Possesses the requisite number of expertly choreographed how'd-they-do-that scenes, as well as some terrific supporting performances from "Mission: Impossible" veterans and newcomers.

Name : Ty Burr / Alias : Boston Globe
You can discuss the incongruities on the drive home; while the movie's playing, you're having too much fun getting manhandled by experts.

Name : Dan Kois / Alias : Slate
Along with many other things, the fourth Mission: Impossible movie also functions as a primer on how to use IMAX technology to immerse an audience.

Name : Calvin Wilson / Alias : St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" proves that a summer flick can be as smart as it is exciting.

Name : Claudia Puig / Alias : USA Today
Mission:Impossible - Ghost Protocol is easily the best of the lot.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Bird is an interesting choice for the franchise and, as it turns out, a pretty inspired one.

Name : Kenneth Turan / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Cruise has played Ethan Hunt so often it would be understandable if he phoned it in, but one of the pleasures of "Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation" is that he doesn't.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
As usual with the series, the movie combines a plot line a toddler could understand with gadgets that would baffle an engineering Ph.D.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The protagonists' dilemmas are quite extreme, the surprises come in all sizes and the ultra-smooth professionalism displayed in all departments early on encourages the sense that you're in good hands, a feeling that ends up being justified.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
[Bird's] fresh touch gives breathless energy, tremendous excitement and, above all, humor to what could have been a wearying genre exercise.