Mr Woo Misfires

Rating: 6/10 (23 May 2002)

"Mission: Impossible 2" is not in the same league with John Woo's previous "Face/Off" or even the first installment of Mission Impossible. It has all the glitz and glitter, A-list staff, and money to be a highly entertaining film. But it isn't. The story is simplistic, unoriginal, and has plot holes and dead-ends aplenty. The acting seems even more wooden that is allowable for the genre, and the characters are two-dimensional. For an action movie, it has way too many boring, snooze zones. Well, I was slightly entertained while I watched it, but it is immanently forgettable. And that?s a shame.