Wow, what a bad idea.

Rating: 3/10 (22 June 2000)

If John Woo released this as a regular movie, it would have been okay, but the fact that he tried to pass it off as being Mission: Impossible is almost insulting. What is definitely insulting is that instead of being one of those clever movies you have to see at least twice to see what you missed the first time, (i.e. Usual Suspects, Mission: Impossible 1), its a bland attempt at a James Bond flick. Speaking of Bond, the villain was ripped straight out of Goldeneye, and even looks like Sean Bean, (Actually he's named Sean too). The opening car chase sequence was taken right out of Goldfinger. None of the cleverness or stealthness and espionage from the first one is left in this movie. In fact all that is left from the original is the masks (which are grossly overused), a rip-off of the famous Black Vault scene (which also has Ethan gracefully stop short of smacking into the floor,) and the theme song which got sampled into a Limp Bizkit song. In other words, don't see it in theaters. Instead, wait until it comes out on video so you and your friends can have fun criticizing it to shreds in the comfort if your home.