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| Rating: Fair Distributor: Paramount Pictures Release Date: May 24th, 2000 Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 2 hours, 7 minutes Genre: Action Director: John Woo Cast: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Richard Roxburgh, and Anthony Hopkins. |
| Plot: Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is back as a super agent hero figure who shoots lots of pistols and dives around. His objective now is to destroy a virus that a renegade agent (Dougray Scott) has attempted to gain money form. He must use the woman whom he cares for (Thandie Newton) to lure the renegade agent into letting vital information to slip through his fingers. She is however, only a thief and is being used only on account of her prior relationship with the mad man. Everyone involved will of course get their hands dirty in subsequent plot twists. |
| Critique: Cruise made a fatal error in asking John Woo in on this assignment. The original Mission: Impossible was fun with plot twists that didn't insult your intelligence and characters that were relatively original. It was authentic spy fun, and I enjoyed it thoroughly. With dropping director Brian DePalma in the sequel for new director, John Woo, a big dumb fancy action flick with stupid martial arts stunts slowed down as if to excencuate their horrifying idiocy has been manifested. It delivers smoothly only because there isn't much to deliver. The plot twists are so forseeable that the whole film really is only entertaining half as often as it should be. The film doesn't start incredibally promising. The beginning is a silly unintelligent set of events that don't even pretend to be complicated nor fun inspiring. Although M:I-2 did come with some interesting spectacles due to our solid cast and relatively good acting, it was no match for its ego-driven action scenes that were so uninspiring in is embarassing. The script was so hopeless that it was obvious early on the only thing that everyone involved in this movie had in mind was to make money, everything else came secondary. The moments of spy fun were few and far between. Everything attempted had already been done better in early James Bond films, and with more intelligent and better crafted execution. Nothing here is new, and the villians are especially cliched, and insulting. I would say I'm disappointed with Mr. Cruise, as he had a lot of the final say in things on account of the fact that he was a co-producer and carried considerable star power, but I'm really not because he looked as convincing as he could with the material he was dealing with. It was the screenwriters and Woo that drove this movie down, and sadly I could not even have a layed back fun time, the kind of experience I should expect from the players involved. review by supernothingman questions or comments? email me at [email protected] |