Peoples
Reviews For Mission Impossible 2
cameron white
score = 90
The movie was ALOT different than the 1st movie! I personaly liked it
becouse of all the action! It was a mix between a love story and a action
flick. It is a good movie if your in the mood for a good time! I liked it.
Benj
score = 80
I actually enjoyed the movie despite its boring and predictable plot. The
action scenes were awesome and Tom Cruise was so magnetic, I could forgive
every cheesy line he uttered.
paul
score = 10
I have seen a lot of movies in my day. I have seen a lot of bad
movies in my day (Viva Knieval, Kiss meets the Phantom of the Park), but
MI:2 is one of the worst movies i have ever seen. Dull slow motion
seens with flamenco/new age guitar are the norm. Why does Tom fall
in love with a woman he knows nothing about? Why are people so damn
concerned about a virus that clearly is not airborn (even though they
treat it like it is)? I thought the government had competent people
on the payrole, but cruise gets a couple of dunderheads to help him
The plot sucked, the action (what little there was of it) was contrived,
derivative and hoakey. If you fail to heed my review you will pay the
worst punishment-you will have to sit through 2 hours of dreck.
Erma
score = 80
Loves this movie. Tom Cruise has redefined the action genre by
adding romance to the formula which should attract more women.
Thandie Newton was outstanding and she and Tom were very believable as a
couple in love. In fact, this is the first female that has shown
real sexual chemistry with Tom. His wife Nicole couldn't even do that in
their movie Eyes Wide Shut. The action sequences were outstanding like an
action dance full of tension and beautifully done. I was never Tom
Cruise fan but I am now after this movie. Kudos to courageous Tom, in more
ways than one!!!!!
Daniel Stringer
score = 40
As a big fan of the first Mission Impossible i was excited to see this
movie especially after knowing the Jon Woo would direct and tom Cruise adn
Ving Rhames would reprise thier roles and i am very very dissappointed. In
order to have a successful franchise you must establish a connection
between the previous movies and the upcoming movie. Scream did this
through its tie back to the first murder, the murder of Sydneys mom. The
godfather did this. Bat man did this in its first two and when they
switched directors the whole atmosphere of the movie changed. That is what
happened with MI2. It is a super action movie filled with excellent camera
shots and good fight scenes, but it s not worthy of the Mission Impossible
Name. I walked out of the movie very disappointed becasue i expected to
see Ethan Hunt do some witty comments and cool suspensful action shots and
instead i saw Keanu Reeves fighting everyone using kung fu. The sequal was
not true to the charaters or atmosphere of the first mission impossible.
Ethan Hunt is supposed to be an american farm boy and instead it seems as
if he is not working for america but is more of a guerilla expert. There
were no suspensful moments in this movie, too many explosions and un
needed relationship. In a bond style moment Hunt makes love wiht a
mysterious woman maybe 20 minutes into the film. This coming off the tails
of the first mission impossible which established in a playful kind of
secrative way that Ethan was in love with Claire and the first and only
contact they have is more than halfway through the movie. Its a kiss.
Brian DePalma did an excellent job on the first one wiht the mix of
playfullness, action, danger, cool gadgets. Now we have a super action
movie with no character development and an odd mix of violence and no
dalogue. Ving Rhames is in the movie but you wouldnt know it becasue he
seems more like a prop. A medicore action movie but a big big
dissappointment as a Mission Impossible movie.
mavis
score = 80
saw the movie last night as i am a huge fan of dougray scott. it was
shear popcorn and candy kinda summer fluff stuff-- just right for the
opening of the summer movie season. fun fun-- good casting--huzzah
for newcomer thandie newton & thanks for letting scott be scot.
John Wheeler
score = 50
I actually enjoyed the first MI movie better. I guess I like
complicated plots. The original series stressed team work. Why is
the MI franchise being changed into a star vehicle for Mr. Cruise?
Right away in the first movie he killed off the team and undermined the
whole concept of the old MI series. How better to bring himself to
center stage? Now in the second MI movie he can't even bear to
compete with the original theme music. It is hardly even heard and
even then not in it's original setting (or even mostly in it's original
time signature: 5/4). Why would you cut one of the most compelling
TV/Movie themes of all time and replace them with dumb rock guitar and
extremely average "original" songs? Anyway I'm losing hope that
any future movies will be in the original MI spirit. They will just be
standard "action" films that make Tom Cruise alot of
money.
Go see Gladiator instead.
Carl & Emilie Flink
score = 10
Mission Impossible 2: Is a truly dull film. A surprising situation
considering that this film is chock full of action. That's the
problem though, Director John Woo does not know when to say no to yet
another high action acrobatic chase or fight scene, and as a result one
wild action scene blends into the next. By the last 30 minutes he
has no where left to go in order to raise the level of action, and the
movie in our opinion completely loses its momentum. We also found that
Woo's attempts to "be artistic" were corny and stale with far
too many meaningful slow motion scenes and long stares between the stars.
The script was sophomoric. Quite honestly, this is the kind of
summer blockbuster that leaves us feeling guilty that we ever support any
movies made by Hollywood. This is the worst kind of empty, eye candy
filmmaking, made worse by Woo's pretentions at making the film artistic.
Shannon
score = 50
This is a Tom Cruise vanity project through and through. Don't get
me wrong I am a huge Tom Cruise fan (though I didn't like Eye Wide Wierd
either) but this movie is full throttle action on top of a silly story
that would make James Bond laugh. I thought Cruise looked obserd in
this movie he just doesn't seem to have charisma, charm yes charisma no
and this film needs some charisma. Tom Cruise takes his superstardom way
too seriously, I wish he would go back to doing films more like Jerry
McGuire.
digitalboy
score = 80
This movie is a pretty good mix of James Bond and The Matrix... If you're
fan, it'll be an unforgettable movie, for the others it'll be a cool
entertainment.
Nick
score = None
I saw this movie last night and I thought it was alright, the first half
had an alright storyline but there was no ation. The movie really got
amazing in the last 30-45 minutes of it. lots of explosions and guns. I
found the most amazing part was the fight at the end between Ethan and
Ambrose, lots of stuff that would never really happen but it was cool
anyway.
CRITICAL COLLIN
score = 80
I saw Mission Impossible 2 lastnight. Although it was a slight
dissapountment for master action film director John Woo. It still
had enough impact in the last half of the film to save it from being a bad
movie. Though I hate to say this about any John Woo movie, but the first
hour of this movie sucked. But the balletic violence in the other
hour is almost so intense it's on a poetic level
Jim Taylor
score = 30
Just saw MI2 tonight. First half was a sleeper, and the second half was a
poor variation on James Bond instead of the original MI. The special
effects were poor to average with one good motorcycle chase. There was the
usual "the bad guy is dead-opps! no he isn't" Wait until Dark
rip-off and Tom didn't even crawl through an AC duct. Still, guys were
getting a "face lift" everytime you turned around. How dull was
the movie? My brother and I went to see Gladiator shortly after seeing
MI2. When Gladiator was over, neither one of us could remember the first
moive we saw just a few hours ago.
Xavier
score
= 10
This
is film is one of the worst film of the decade , this is not a mission:
impossible sequel , its a new film. The first part was very good , but
this is like Face Off . its a shooting film , well , a john woo film
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