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Description: Genre: Action & Adventure / Theatrical Release: 2000 / Director: John Woo / Actors: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott ... / DVD ... more
Mission Impossible 2 (DVD) ... released 11 December, 2000 at Paramount Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: Anamorphic, PAL, Widescreen / Visually stunning, and a likely must for John Woo aficionados, the second Mission: Impossible outing from megastar Tom Cruise suffers from an inconsistent tone and tired plot devices--not only recycled from other films, but repeated throughout the film. Despite remarkable cinematography and awe-inspiring, trademark Woo photography, the movie offers a tepid story from legendary screenwriter-director Robert Towne (Chinatown) and a host of other writers, most uncredited.Following on from the set pieces in the first big-budget, big box-office MI in 1996, it's clear (as Towne confirms) that the plot was developed around Woo- and Cruise-written action sequences. The film combines equal elements of romance and action, and is best when it features the stunning allure of Thandie Newton as Nyah, a master thief recruited by the sinewy charms of Ethan Hunt (a fit Cruise). Deeply in love after a passionate night, the couple must then combat MI nemesis (and Nyah's former lover) Sean Ambrose (Ever After's Dougray Scott). Ambrose holds hostage a virus and its cure, and offers them to the highest bidder.Woo's famed mythic film making is far from subtle, with heroic Hunt frequently slow-motion walking through fire, smoke or other similar devices, replete with a white dove among pigeons to signal his presence. The emphasis on romance is an attempt to develop character and a more human side to superspy Hunt, but still the story proves a distraction from the exciting action sequences. John Polson (as an MI team member) is an Aussie talent to keep an eye on. --N.F. MendozaM:I-2 DVD Extra Features With more and more DVDs coming out with an extra DVD full of features at a slightly more expensive price, it's nice every so often to see a disc that offers not only a great movie, but a bundle of features on it as well. The M:i-2 DVD does just this, and features not only the widescreen presentation, but also a number of behind-the-scenes footage, a spoof documentary, breakdowns of some of the stunts and even a music video to boot. Although the breakdown of scenes has that "Tom really did do it all, honest" feel to it, some of the elements are genuinely interesting. The biggest surprise of all though is the inclusion of the six-minute spoof documentary that was done for the MTV awards with Ben Stiller. All in all, a well presented disc and set of extra features. --Stuart Miles

Newest Review: ... us just how well Woo directs stunning action. Dr. Vladimir Nekhorvich (Rade Serbedzija) has developed a virus called ... more

 ... Chimera, as well as its antidote. He contacts Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) to deliver the virus safely, however, IMF Agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) disguises himself as Hunt and steals the virus. It's up to the real Ethan to form a strike team to get the virus back, teaming up once again with Luther Stickell (Ving Rhames), as well as femme fatale Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton), a professional thief. This isn't a film too concerned with clever plotting or deep characterisation, but it does deliver staggering action scenes ...more

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MykReeve
Crowned Review Mission Impossible 2 (DVD): Critique: Impossible 2 (1305 words)
by - written on 25/12/00 (Very useful, 118 readings)
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I've got to be honest, I really enjoyed 'Mission: Impossible 2'. At times, I feel like I was the only one – it received an almost universal panning from film critics, and the general public at large, for having a "confusing and implausible plot", and for having "infeasible technology". Often these comments came from exactly the same people who enthusiastically praised the recent Pierce Brosnan Bond films, which seems odd because if anything, the plot of 'Mission: Impossible 2' is more plausible than that of recent Bond films. The villains of the piece are as lunatic as those of Bond films, but at least they're not ...  Read the complete review

triplecthegame
Crowned Review Cruise control (1196 words)
by - written on 10/02/01 (Very useful, 115 readings)
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-- Tuesday 6th February 2001, 1400 hours Freshney Place Grimsby -- A 21 year old dooyooser by the handle of triplecthegame is browsing around minding his own business when for some strange reason these words are playing in his head "Triplecthegame, your mission if you choose to accept it is simple, approach your local branch of WHSmith and take advantage of their 3 for £40 DVD offer, however you must ensure that one of those 3 DVD's is Mission Impossible 2 and it is imperative that you return with the DVD to home-base and play the disc, this offer will self-destruct in 5 weeks". Almost instinctively triplecthegame heads towards the DVD ...  Read the complete review

MI9to5
Premium Review Mission Impossible 2 (DVD): Expect the impossible again (708 words)
by - written on 08/07/08 (Very useful, 69 readings)
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Mission Impossible Two is another film I really enjoy watching and have watched numerous times since I purchased it. In the search for a hero Belleraphon, Dr Vladamir Nekhorvich has discovered a villain, a monster in Chimera and he needs Ethan Hunt to help him. Out of reach however IMF send a double in his place, Stephen Ambrose and Dr Nekhorvich ends up dead. Showing off his fitness and climbing prowess Ethan Hunt is on holiday when his mission is literally fired at him and he is called upon to do what he does best. He must now recruit two team-members of his own choice with the third being Nyah, a professional thief and Ambrose's ex-girlfriend. ...  Read the complete review

LL-Cool-Rob
Premium Review Mission:Failed?? (846 words)
by - written on 02/04/02 (Very useful, 107 readings)
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Your mission reader, if you choose to accept it, is to make it through this opinion feeling an interest and desire to learn more on the film Mission:Impossible 2. Here we go with the review then: Mission Impossible The launch of Mission Impossible saw a large scale of viewer appreciation and interest. This new type of conspiracy, plot-turning espionage action was to be the start of a whole new brand of action film. The story went as a complicated plot with twists and turns but the overall thing was easy enough to understand which made it so compelling. M:I 2 Not in anyway connected with the first one albeit the name of Ethan and who he works ...  Read the complete review

The+Solid+Grey
Premium Review Mission Impossible 2 (DVD): Tom, Guns and Rubber Masks (1057 words)
by - written on 10/02/02 (Very useful, 645 readings)
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If only the DVD of the first film was as attractive as this DVD, I'd get it right now. The Mission Impossible 2 DVD has got some good extra's, its not a bad film, and there's plenty of action. ~~Introduction~~ I never used to like Tom Cruise, but these days I seem to quite like his films. As I had watched Mission Impossible (which confused me the first time I saw it), and quite liking it, seeing this in a second hand shop for £10 after recently buying a DVD player meant I just had to get it. This film as with the first, centre's around the exploits of agent Ethan Hunt, and is based on the old TV series, Mission Impossible - not ...  Read the complete review

 
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