Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
68%RT Audience Score: 62%
Awards & Nominations: NA
Your cranium may crave more substance, but your eyes will feast on the amazing action sequences
Mission: Impossible 2 is a movie that’s as slick as a greased-up banana peel, but unfortunately, it’s also about as exciting as watching paint dry. The action scenes are over-the-top and ridiculous, and the plot is so thin you could use it as a napkin. Thandie Newton is the only saving grace, with her seductive smile and lifting eyebrows, but even she can’t save this movie from being a total snooze-fest. If you’re a completionist, go ahead and watch it, but otherwise, skip it and watch something more thrilling, like paint drying.
Production Company(ies)
R. P. Productions, Heritage Films, Studio Babelsberg
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
Release Type
Filming Location(s)
MPAA / Certificate
Year of Release
2000
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:2h 3m
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Language(s):
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): May 24, 2000 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 25, 2001
Genre(s)
Action/Adventure
Keyword(s)
starring Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton, Ving Rhames, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, directed by John Woo, written by Brannon Braga, Ronald D Moore, Robert Towne, produced by Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner, action, adventure, PG-13, box office, budget, reviewed by David Hunter, David Ansen, Nell Minow, Dennis Harvey, Roger Ebert, Andrew Sarris, Tony Black, Leo Brady, Sergio Benítez, Tomatometer, audience score, IMF, Ethan Hunt, virus, terrorists, international, turned bad, cure, SDDS, Dolby Digital, DTS, Surround, Dolby SR, Scope (2.35:1), Paramount Pictures
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Budget and Earnings Details
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Dougray Scott – Sean Ambrose
Thandiwe Newton – Nyah Nordoff-Hall
Ving Rhames – Luther Stickell
Richard Roxburgh – Hugh Stamp
John Polson – Billy Baird
Director(s)
John Woo
Writer(s)
Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore, Robert Towne
Producer(s)
Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
NA
Academy Awards
All Critics (153) | Top Critics (42) | Fresh (87) | Rotten (66)
Newton is just about the best thing about M:I-2, playing a thinly written and cryptically motivated character with such charisma that one hangs on every lifting eyebrow and seductive smile.
June 15, 2020
David Hunter
Hollywood Reporter
TOP CRITIC
“M:I-2,” as the new Mission: Impossible is tagged, is a slick, expensive, bullet-ridden thriller that is oddly dull — the last thing you’d expect.
March 6, 2018
David Ansen
Newsweek
TOP CRITIC
Good thrill ride of a movie for teens and older.
December 26, 2010 | Rating: 4/5
Nell Minow
Common Sense Media
TOP CRITIC
Woo lays on his own particular high-octane stylishness so thick the results edge perilously toward self-parody.
March 27, 2009
Dennis Harvey
Variety
TOP CRITIC
If the first movie was entertaining as sound, fury and movement, this one is more evolved, more confident, more sure-footed in the way it marries minimal character development to seamless action.
October 18, 2008 | Rating: 3/4
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
TOP CRITIC
For all my profound reservations about the whole project, I wound up liking it more, or, at least disliking it less, than I had anticipated. Thandie Newton is the biggest reason.
April 27, 2007
Andrew Sarris
Observer
TOP CRITIC
A film that remains eternally fascinating, particularly as the demonstrable nadir of, otherwise, one of cinema’s most consistently entertaining blockbuster franchises.
February 15, 2021 | Rating: 2/5
Tony Black
Cultural Conversation
Mission: Impossible II isn’t just Wrongfully Rotten, it deserves high praise.
February 12, 2021 | Rating: 3/4
Leo Brady
Imbibe Cinema
The prolonged excess of a climax that is made even longer by the incessant inclusion of slow motion seems to want to compensate for the practical nonexistence of the action in more than half of the footage. [Full Review in Spanish]
April 23, 2020
Sergio Benítez
Espinof
It’s fairly disappointing to note, ultimately, that Mission: Impossible II rarely comes close to replicating the consistent thrills and excitement of its vastly superior predecessor…
March 1, 2020 | Rating: 2.5/4
David Nusair
Reel Film Reviews
John Woo’s summer blockbuster is surely the most elegant and graceful example of cinema’s technology advanced comeuppance so far.
February 25, 2019 | Rating: A
Cole Smithey
ColeSmithey.com
Watch it for completionist-sake … but in a series with very self-contained entries, (this film) isn’t really necessary or recommended.
December 7, 2018 | Rating: 4.0/10
Colby Bryant
Colbybryant.com…
Plot
In “Mission: Impossible 2,” Ethan Hunt and his team must stop a deadly virus from being released by terrorists, but they face competition from a group of international terrorists led by a former IMF agent.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Fresh Kernels doesn’t say anything goofy or funny about Mission: Impossible 2, but one interesting tidbit is that Thandiwe Newton is praised as the best thing about the film, playing a charismatic character with lifting eyebrows and seductive smiles.
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