Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to see Dubai in a new light. Tom Cruise has, swinging from the Burj Khalifa in his starring role in MI4: Ghost Protocol.

The latest instalment of the Mission Impossible franchise was shot extensively in Dubai last year. Now audiences around the world will get to see what we all know living here: Dubai, like the rest of the UAE, is modern and progressive and a great place to live.

We also know that sandstorms of a blinding magnitude don't appear out of nowhere, and that it's a long way to run between the Burj Khalifa and the Dubai International Financial Centre complex. But we'll allow Hollywood some artistic licence. But Dubai sure looks good from Hollywood's angle. This comment will self-destruct in five seconds . . .