BEJING. Twenty-seven are dead and six in critical condition after Academy Award-winning actor Christian Bale throttled a cadre of armed security guards who tried blocking his visit to the home of oppressed Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng earlier this week.
You know the drill: Stack the odds against veteran IMF agent Ethan Hunt and dangle him from a wire in a room or building no one’s supposed to be able to infiltrate. Have some clandestine evil threaten the global balance of power while Hunt’s own superiors disavow knowledge of his effort to stop it. Yes, Tom Cruise is back as Hunt for MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – GHOST PROTOCOL, the third sequel to the 1996 film adaptation of the popular sixties spy program.