Mission: Impossible II

Paramount Pictures | Release Date: May 24, 2000

8.0	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 754 Ratings

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RayzorMooseNov 12, 2013

Unlike its fast paced predecessor MI2 is anything but entertaining.
With a slow redundant plot and stick think gun wielding henchmen for characters, MI2 loses the magic and becomes yawn worthy.

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HalfwelshmanJan 3, 2012

I can see Tom Cruise and the other producers' logic when they hired John Woo to direct Mission: Impossible II - getting a big-name action director to helm the second installment of a big-name thriller franchise makes complete sense.I can see Tom Cruise and the other producers' logic when they hired John Woo to direct Mission: Impossible II - getting a big-name action director to helm the second installment of a big-name thriller franchise makes complete sense. Unfortunately, what John Woo turned M:I-2 into was an English-language Hong Kong action movie, and not a good one. At times his direction of the action scenes borders on self-parody, and I'm not certain Woo has noticed. We get it John, you like your wire-work, your slow-motion jumping-through-the-air-whilst-shooting, but I think I speak for the vast majority when I say we'd much rather see Chow Yun-fat doing it in Hard Boiled or a Better Tommorrow and looking cool than Mr. Cruise doing it in this knockoff and looking pretty damn silly. On the subject of the pocket-sized actor, in the first film, Cruise's Ethan Hunt was a character you could get behind - despite his **** he was likeable, his motivations understandable, but this time round he's just a smug, self-indulgent douchebag (putting it mildly), and his hair is stupid. I could write a whole page on the hair in this film - with all the slow-motion shots of hair billowing in the wind, it's like a Loreal ad! Concerning the rest of the cast, Thandie Newton is irritating as the love interest, Dougray Scott and Richard Roxburgh make bland villains in comparison to the baddies in the first film, and Brendan Gleeson and Anthony Hopkins should be ashamed by appearing in the film at all, brief though their time on screen is (i swear Hopkins only said yes to have something to do between scenes in Hannibal). Thank goodness for Ving Rhames, who reprises the role of Luther Stickell the effortlessly cool hacker - he's still an incredibly fun character, but just isn't on the screen for long enough. Even after all these gripes, my main problem with M:I-2 is the decision to make a novelty of the first film a major plot device in this film. Yes, I'm talking about the ultra-realistic face masks people use when they need to look a doppelganger of someone else. It's a lazy and unconvincing concept for a plot element, and you always see it coming. Plus it's never explained why people's eyes aren't a different colour. Mission: Impossible II has completely lost the fun factor of the first film. Yes, the action scenes are just as big, if not bigger, and exceptionally competent, but Woo's direction is lazy and with too much tendency to reference the infinitely better films he directed in the 80s and 90s. The performances are lacklustre, the script laughable, and tone extremely uneven. It's not quite the worst action film I've ever seen, but I can find little that's right with the film, and a whole lot that's wrong with it.… Expand

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BroyaxJun 30, 2018

Après le premier épisode réalisé par Brian de Palma, Mission Impossible se paye un autre réalisateur de luxe, à savoir l'épatant John Woo auteur des films les plus fous, les plus violents de Hongkong...

Le souci, hélas, c'est que MonsieurAprès le premier épisode réalisé par Brian de Palma, Mission Impossible se paye un autre réalisateur de luxe, à savoir l'épatant John Woo auteur des films les plus fous, les plus violents de Hongkong...

Le souci, hélas, c'est que Monsieur Woo après son examen de passage vite fait (mais bien fait) avec Hard Target s'est très vite et trop vite coulé dans le moule de la réalisation hollywoodienne basique en y insérant de temps à autre et avec force maladresses ses quelques vieux tics qui ont fait sa réputation : on a donc quelques ralentis mais le réalisateur est en vérité méconnaissable : le cadrage et le montage sont généralement indignes de lui et le reste donne l'impression qu'il se caricature lui-même.

En outre, l'histoire complètement débile qui lorgne décidément trop sur les james_bonderies et les cacades aberrantes nous ennuie résolument, le film ne parvenant jamais à nous distraire même au troisième degré... car tout ça se prend très au sérieux, y compris la romance bidon avec la petite grognasse Thandie Newton qui n'a clairement pas inventé l'eau chaude et encore moins l'eau tiède.

Quant au petit Tom, il pose encore plus que d'habitude, il roule des mécaniques comme une Harley repeinte au rouleau et s'avère totalement insupportable. Ce MI2 a donc gagné ses galons de navet surdimensionné, un navet Triple A devenu Triple Z.… Expand

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imthenoobJan 26, 2021

This is by far the worst film of the franchise. Woo tries too hard emphasizing the action at set moments and fails to deliver even a some-what interesting story. The characters are shallow, The main villain lacks a clear motivation for hisThis is by far the worst film of the franchise. Woo tries too hard emphasizing the action at set moments and fails to deliver even a some-what interesting story. The characters are shallow, The main villain lacks a clear motivation for his actions and the story just fails to gain any traction nor does it make use of its stellar cast. MI 2 tries too hard to be a James Bond-like film and therein lies the problem. It doesn't have an identity, it only tries to mimic and that is why it pales in comparison to every other movie in the franchise.… Expand