Woo's hysterically hyper visuals and boytoy gimmickry can't camouflage the emptiness of the enterprise.
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02/09/06
Mission: Impossible II (2000)
57 %
Reviews Counted: 134 Fresh: 76 Rotten:58 Average Rating: 5.9/10
Consensus:
Your cranium may crave more substance, but your eyes will feast on the amazing action sequences.
Runtime: 2 hrs 24 mins
Synopsis: John Woo raises the action bar in this violent, romantic sequel to Brian De Palma's 1996 original. Tom Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt, this time battling wits with rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott). Hunt is ordered to recruit Ambrose's former lover, Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton), to... [More]
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Anthony Hopkins
Director: John Woo
Screenwriter: Robert Towne
Story: Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga
Producer: Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner
Composer: Hans Zimmer, BT
Screenwriter: Robert Towne
Story: Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga
Producer: Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner
Composer: Hans Zimmer, BT
Reviews
Top Critic
By any reasonable measure Mission: Impossible II is a successful action-adventure film.
12/02/02
Mission Impossible 2 offers a bit of escapism and a hefty shot of cinematic adrenalin.
10/30/02
The film continually halts the action to repeat the plot to us, sometimes word for word.
01/01/00
Top Critic
Here, Woo just seems to fall back on slow-mo whenever he gets bored, which apparently is often.
07/18/08
With all this having been done before, making MI2 interesting or suspenseful truly is an impossible mission.
07/14/07
For all my profound reservations about the whole project, I wound up liking it more, or, at least disliking it less, than I had anticipated. Thandie Newton is the biggest reason.
04/27/07
It doesn't matter how many extra months the director spends creating impressive action scenes. If the audience is not emotionally invested in the fate of the heroes, no amount of explosions will make them care.
12/06/05
The makers don't go out of their way to make this original in any way, but the quality comes through.
04/09/05
This sequel seems afraid of confusing people, so much so that it dumbs down the plot to an insulting level.
12/06/04
Rather than a groundbreaking piece of new gadgetry, this thriller is like an old, well-oiled machine.
05/22/03
Woo outwits, outgadgets, outstunts and outdirects the original with one hand tied behind his back.
05/20/03
Fans of straight action/adventure may enjoy this film; fans of TV's Mission: Impossible may not recognize it.
02/08/03
Despite Cruise's attempts here to be Byronic, there's something strenuous about his soulfulness; he turns everything, even repose, into calisthenics.
01/16/03
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