An awesome, balls-in-your-face action movie

Rating: 8/10 (21 June 2008)

Let me just start by saying that if you're looking for the spy atmosphere of the first one, look somewhere else or watch that movie again. Even though this is a sequel, it completely veers away from the paranoia seen in the first film and gives us a shot of adrenaline. It begins with Ethan Hunt being given a new mission while on vacation. The mission entails recruiting a thief, Naya,(Thandie Newton) to infiltrate one of Ethan's old operatives who's stolen an important virus and it's antidote with the intention of infecting the population and selling to the highest bidder. Everything goes good until it doesn't and Ethan enlists the help of some friends (Ving Rhames and John Polson) to help him steal and destroy the virus. The movie is directed by John Woo and that means all kinds of impossible acrobatics from pistols to motorcycles to hand to hand combat. The action in this movie delivers, not giving us a boring minute. The spy aspect of the movie plays its necessary part but doesn't overshadow the action. This is a movie on par with Desperado and the Bourne movies so if that's your taste, check this out