My Espionage Adventure For ‘Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol’ Blu-ray Release
Life is almost always more interesting in the movies than it is in reality. That’s because Hollywood uses artistic license to entertain us, by embellishing the truth and engaging us with concepts just plausible enough to be real. No place is this truer than in the spy film genre, which is filled with globe-trotting action heroes like James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Ethan Hunt. These characters incite epic car chases, gunfights, and explosions wherever they go, relying on elaborate gadgets in order to accomplish their respective missions. Their films are hardly realistic, but not entirely far-fetched either.
Anticipating its blu-ray release on April 17th, I watched Ethan Hunt’s fourth big screen outing “Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol,” which features enough quality popcorn action sequences and slick spy equipment to keep fans of the genre appeased. In “Ghost Protocol,” Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team, are forced to go rogue in order to clear their name, after they are implicated in a bombing of the Kremlin. Meanwhile, they must also stop the real culprit from instigating global nuclear conflict.
When I watched espionage movies like this one, I used to wonder what parts actually reflect a spy’s experience. However recently I was lucky enough to satisfy that curiosity, by traveling to the International Spy Museum in Washington DC, where I took part in a full afternoon of behind-the-scenes espionage activities. My exciting journey helped me uncover which elements in “Ghost Protocol” are actually influenced by fact, and which ones are simply the products of movie magic.