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)
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Reviews Counted:136
Fresh:77
Rotten:59
Average Rating:6/10
Consensus: Your cranium may crave more substance, but your eyes will feast on the amazing action sequences.
Runtime: 2 hrs 24 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
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... [More]
Starring: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames
Director: John Woo
Reviews for Mission: Impossible II
Top CriticBy 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
Capraesque. Hitchcockian. Add Wootastic to the Lexicon.
12/10/01
An effective spectacle of violence.
01/01/00
The film continually halts the action to repeat the plot to us, sometimes word for word.
01/01/00
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10/18/08
Top CriticHere, 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
A more coherent and romantic script.
06/26/04
Rather than a groundbreaking piece of new gadgetry, this thriller is like an old, well-oiled machine.
05/22/03
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