Mission: Impossible II

Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 24, 2000

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59	METASCORE Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews

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TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh

It's actually sharper, less reverential and generally better than "Misson: Impossible." Read full review

Film.comSean Means

Isn't bad as summer action fare goes -- big and loud, impressively staged by Hong Kong action auteur John Woo, a combination of special effects and eye-popping stunt maneuvers threaded by a plotline that doesn't make sense in the slightest. Read full review

Dallas ObserverAndy Klein

Abandon all hopes of common sense, and enter the theater with high expectations for visceral entertainment. You won't be disappointed. Read full review

Film.comRobert Horton

The problem is that the motion picture around these individual stunts is patently a committee-made artifact. Read full review

Steve Persall

Woo directs Mission: Impossible 2 cautiously, as if still introducing himself to U.S. audiences despite Face-Off and Broken Arrow. Or maybe he has nothing left to say about the poetry of violence after such visual eloquence in his Chinese classics. [24 May 2000, p.1D]

Michael H. Kleinschrodt

Long stretches of boredom punctuated by a few thrilling action sequences is the most succint description I can give of M:I-2. [24 May 2000, p.E1]

David Hunter

Woo masterfully stages fierce and memorably destructive cinematic sequences, but his use of slow motion becomes tiresome, and the motorcycles-and-kung fu finale gets pretty hokey. Cruise comes off as fearless and virile, and his fans should not be disappointed in the slightest. [24 May 2000]