The movie is structured as a "string of twinkly lights"—exotic locations held together by a high-stakes plot:
Cruise performed the stunt 2,717 feet in the air. Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Review: Mission Impossible 4: Ghost Protocol - St. Louis Magazine The movie is structured as a "string of
The film’s centerpiece is the Burj Khalifa climb, where Tom Cruise famously scaled the world's tallest building in Dubai. which were later digitally erased.
To film it, the production had to remove 26 windows from the tower and install custom tracks for safety harnesses, which were later digitally erased.