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Mission: Impossible II

Paramount Pictures

Cruise/Wagner Productions

United States of America

English

Tom Cruise

Dougray Scott

Thandiwe Newton

Ving Rhames

Richard Roxburgh

John Polson

Brendan Gleeson

Rade Šerbedžija

William Mapother

Dominic Purcell

Mathew Wilkinson

Nicholas Bell

Cristina Brogeras

Kee Chan

Kim Fleming

Alan Lovell

Dan Luxton

Christian Manon

Karl McMillan

Lester Morris

Kelly Ons

Nicholas Papademetriou

Brett Partridge

Candice Partridge

Natalie Reis

Daniel Roberts

Adriana Rodríguez

Sandra Rodríguez

Nada Rogic

Antonio Vargas

Anthony Hopkins

Alison Araya

Rebecca Barratt

Douglas Bunn

Caine

Fred Chen

Mark Connolly

Ryder Davis

Alan Hennessy

Patrick Marber

William Morts

Tory Mussett

Paul Roget

Shant Sarkissian

Darren Dupree Washington

R. Bruce Steinheimer

Brian Smrz

Michelle McGahey

Kerrie Brown

Paula Wagner

Hans Zimmer

Deborah Aquila

Bryan Bowen

Nathan Crowley

Kevin Kavanaugh

Lauri Gaffin

Jeffrey L. Kimball

Christian Wagner

Robert McCann

Ray Anthony

Richard Ratliff

Steven Kemper

Thomas E. Sanders

Robert Towne

John Woo

Lizzy Gardiner

Paul Pattison

Sarah Halley Finn

Gregory Apps

Jasmine Yuen Carrucan

Randi Feldman

Judy Whitehead

Michael Anthony Jackson

Lalo Schifrin

Robert Consing

Mark Sexton

Bruce Geller

Richard K. Buoen

Trevor Goring

Jane Johnston

Dane Farwell

Danny Wynands

Michael Doven

Terence Chang

Ronald D. Moore

Brannon Braga

Paul Hitchcock

Corey Michael Eubanks

Marc Streitenfeld

Kristin Voumard

Zigmund Gron

Ken Crouch

William H. Burton Sr.

Colette Birrell

Lisa Javelin

Kerry Dean Williams

Brett Cooper

Dave Weston

Brian Nailing

Elaine Kusmishko

Eric Todd

Kevin De La Noy

Greg Allen

Marc Spicer

David Bartholomew

Jeff Brown

Gregory Lundsgaard

Michael Kehoe

Steve Brodsky

Barbara Fiorentino

Marque Owen

Clive Memmott

Jasin Boland

Susan Towner

Timothy Everest

Ehren Koepf

Lisa Brennan

Sheryl Pilkinton

Kim Libreri

Mitchell J. Coughlin

Michael Crowe

Steven Koller

Jake Kennedy

Phil Shearer

Belinda Villani

John 'D.J.' Des Jardin

Craig Heath

John Rogers

Jim Davidson

Craig Fison

Mel Kangleon

Colin Chase

Bruce Callahan

John Lee

John Copeman

Barrie Hemsley

Fiona Searson

Phil Pastuhov

Victoria Mielewska

Jamie Gardner

Daniel Mellitz

Jonathan Sanger

Daniel T. Dorrance

Klaus Badelt

Per Gunnar Jonsson

This is a decent enough mindless action movie with a lot of over the top action but it is not really a Mission Impossible movie. The movie starts of reasonably well being somewhat intelligent with a bit of Mission Impossible feel to it. It is actually almost a bit slow at times. However, for the second half of the movie it really degrades into a classical John Woo, over the top, action feast with all pretense of intelligence and any true Mission Impossible feel gone. John Woo is not the right person to make a Mission Impossible movie.

As with the first movie if it would not have been labelled Mission Impossible I would probably have given it a higher rating since it is a decent enough, mostly braindead though, Hollywood action movie. However, I have higher expectations from a movie labelled Mission Impossible.

Tom Cruise is quite okay as Ethan Hunt. Dougray Scott is okayish as the bad guy. Sometimes he projects the right big bad and mad bad-guy attitude but sometimes he is just silly and just as over the top as the action scenes. He is supposed to be a mastermind but he comes out as a thug a’ la a not so intelligent drug baron in many scenes.

The action scenes? Well, they are classical John Woo material. Fast paced with a lot of stunts and things that go boom. They are also, as expected, hugely over the top and unbelievable. They provide a enjoyable visual experience but, as I wrote above, they are not really what I would expect from a Mission Impossible movie.

The romance between Hunt and Nyah is the typical Hollywood, let’s throw in a sexy girl and some superficial attraction, which develops from get lost to I love you in the matter of a few hours of contact, between the lead character and the girl. Meh!

I get the impression that the people that have created these movies so far have not really watched a single full season of Mission Impossible.

Gimly

The first underwhelmed me, but this one straight-up bored me. Again, of course seeing Hunt climb a mountain without a harness is impressive sure. And I even quite liked the idea behind the villain of the piece (though even that angle was woefully underdeveloped).

Even setting it in predominantly Australia was enough to grab my attention, and that's saying something cause I'm pretty biased when it comes to that. I hear tell that _Mission: Impossible II_ is the low point in the series, and that at least is encouraging, because if anything afterwards is much worse than this one, I don't know if I'll be able to make it through to Rogue Nation.

_Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid if possible._

After quite entertainign Mission Impossible I the second installment turned out ... terrible. As if the screenwriters didn't know how to fill the 2 hrs with action the overuse of heroic slow motion scenes is horrible. You almost might need a barf bag if you can't stand slo-mo every five seconds... for 15 seconds. I am amazed they did decide to push on with more M:I movies after this one, then again, these turned out much much better even if it would be hard to beat that lousy piece of crap of a movie.

CinemaSerf

"Ambrose" (Dougray Scott) is a disavowed IMF agent with a grudge. He is determined to procure and release a deadly hybrid "chimera" virus onto the streets of Sydney so he can push up the share price of the company that wins his auction to acquire it; and that can also manufacture the antidote "Bellerophon". It falls to "Ethan" (Tom Cruise) and his inventive gang of regulars to come up with a way to thwart this plot. To that end, he recruits the brassy thief "Nyah" (Thandiwe Newton) who gets to play a real love interest with "Ethan" whilst feigning one with "Ambrose" to get close to him and learn his plans. On the face of it, this is an ideal screenplay for this franchise, a sort of "James Bond" theme with plenty of location cinematography, action scenes and the odd gadget. Sadly, though, Scott is just not very menacing as the baddie and the story is really under-developed. The characters appear to be almost grinning their way through the unremarkable dialogue, and John Woo creates then recreates the action scenes as if it were just some sort of cartoon feature. The standard of the production is high, the staging of those action scenes is strong and well photographed, but the story just doesn't ever really get into gear and at over two hours, it's a pretty weak and insipid outing for just about everyone. Not a patch on the first film.

Brent Western

This movie generally follows the formula of most spy and action movies, and certainly fits into the mission, impossible mold. I’m not much of a cinephile, and don’t normally notice a slight directorial selections, but the directing in this was terrible. Constant cut ways to waves or buildings or other things.  This movie was not only anticlimactic with the final fight scene, which is poorly paste and poorly directed.

Some of the set pieces were cool, but this went from being a spy type movie to more of an action movie and didn’t deliver on the promise. The first movie gave us. Probably the lowest in the mission impossible franchise.

And here is where I gave up on the series.  I liked the first one, it was 3 Days of the Condor with action, not as brilliant acting, not as talented a cast, but action packed fun.

And then suddenly Tom has long hair and it's has no plot, there are a lot of pigeons all the time, the action looks corny and.... I checked out, I really did.  Even the memory cards, they are spies that do action and they aren't using Compact Flash Cards?

It made no sense, it was imagery over plot.  It stank.

But they made a lot more, and I might have watched the Ghost Recall or whatever it was called on, but don't really remember paying attention to it.  This one took me out of the franchise.

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Dougray Scott

Thandiwe Newton

Ving Rhames

Richard Roxburgh

John Polson

Brendan Gleeson

Rade Šerbedžija

William Mapother

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