Could it be more insulting?

Rating: 4/10 (25 July 2000)

First off let me say I love action movies, and I really wanted to like this. Second Let me mention this movie did NOT fail because it is a sequel I believe, but it insults the audience.
Mission Impossible 2 has great music, great sound, great actors and intriguing ideas yet shallow Story line. But the complaints come from 2 parts. The story line is shallow and then it is repeated. there is enough flashbacks in this MOVIE (which they seem to forget they are making) you might think you were at a Grateful Dead concert, and some of those flash backs intertwining two different dialogue. It is hard to tell what is what. Is it so hard to remember the FIRST scene? why do they insult the audience that way, not all of us are morons. Then they remind us of the MAJOR key scene in the final fight? Why do they call us idiots like this? It is sad.
But that is not worst they could do. There are some GREAT action moments, unfortunately they are ruined by the over use of one major special effect, SLOW MOTION!!! This movie's action scenes each have a slow motion. If the producers saw Matrix they could understand that slow motion might be good in moderation, but the way they use it in this movie, it is like over using crack? anyone else notice that? What are they hiding.... the fact the action only takes up about half the time it seems, maybe less. They just want you to think it takes up more.
Then there is the romantic story? again? the producers are morons. We don't want to know romance. Action movie watchers want Sex, Violence, and Blood, And not too much romance but there is too much romance and talk about romance, and not that much skin. I don't care if someone wants to protect someone I want to see them do it, oops I just remembered, they screwed that up too.
Don't go to this for any reason unless you NEED Tom Cruise or you will die. Other then him the only redeemable quality is the fact it is a John Woo Flick. or maybe the use of Slow motion (you better love slow motion)
Finally my recommendation? Get Matrix, and watch it again (always a good movie, and better done), or for theater fanatics go see Gladiator (great action flick and expertly done) or go to this awful movie and hope not to get p***ed off at John Woo's big bomb.