Mission: Impossible-Ghost Protocol” is a perfect action-thriller flick. It’s slaying at the box office, too, which shows that audiences are paying attention. Tom Cruise is back, he’s still got it (in spades), and really pulls and keeps the whole project together. He doesn’t swagger, but he leads his MI team with “hunches,” bravery and physical prowess. The premise is that the MI team, while trying to prevent individual terrorists from sparking nuclear war, is intercepted by said individual terrorists who blow up part of the Kremlin. The Russians think the Americans did it. The MI team consists of Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise), William Brandt (Jeremy Renner, whose acting falters a bit: too casual, too flip for the part), Jane Carter (tough but feminine, best-actor-of-the-bunch Paula Patton), and Brit Benji Dunn (Simon Pegg, who plays a hilarious, somewhat cowardly geek, glued to his computer). The story is set in Budapest, Moscow, Dubai and Mumbai. The pacing is perfect and seamless from the winsome prison bust that springs Ethan, to the heart-stopping human fly maneuvers Ethan must perform on the outside of the world’s tallest building, Burj Khalifa, in Dubai. Nothing seems ridiculous or over the top in MIGP. There is a calm groundedness, humanity and humility pervading the excitement. And when Cruise explains it all to us with his intense, commanding presence, we just go with it. Women will love MIGP because of the lack of gratuitous, mindless explosions and chases. There are explosions and chases (one involving the device of a sandstorm) but they make sense. Even when things get a little overblown, we really don’t care because we’ve suspended our disbelief permanently in these expert filmmakers’ hands. And it’s funny. Really funny. In all the right places. The agents fail a lot in MIGP. Things do not go smoothly at any point. Sometimes they lose nerve. They’re humans, not machines. There’s an earnest underdog aura here. Surprisingly enough, there is no cursing at all, and swearing would have been mighty appropriate in every one of these sticky situations. And the name of the Lord was not taken in vain. (When good men lead — including in Hollywood — good things happen. Thanks, guys.)