Mission: Impossible II
2000  PG-13  ACTION  2h 3min
CAST— Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleeson, Radé Sherbedgia, Ving Rhames
MUSIC— Hans Zimmer  DIRECTOR— John Woo  BASED ON— Characters appearing on Mission: Impossible (television)

     The mission continues in this rather unfortunate sequel to the stylish original. Tom Cruise returns as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, no longer the smooth operative from the first mission; now he’s a long-haired bruiser with an attitude. He’s off to save the world from a custom made virus that’s fallen into the wrong hands, the hands of a rogue IMF agent who knows all of Cruise’s tricks. Trading substance for slam bang, slow-mo action sequences, this fails to deliver even as a no-brainer, proving to be both stupid and incoherent. This mission, if you choose to accept it, is pretty much a dud.
OUR RATING— * ½
PRECEDED BY— Mission: Impossible (1996)
FOLLOWED BY— Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible— Ghost Protocol (2011), Mission: Impossible— Rogue Nation (2015), Mission: Impossible— Fallout (2018)