Pure John Woo C**p

Rating: 3/10 (5 June 2000)

This movie was terrible. The plot was laughable and extremely predictable. Woo's attempt to turn Tom Cruise into James Bond was a total mistake, as was his leaving any sort of suspense or plot twists out of the movie. I mean, what is Mission Impossible (or any action movie) without a few moments where the story takes a sudden turn that you weren't expecting. The constant slow motion, techno-drenched, swirly camera shots were ludicrous once you realized that most of the action was practically impossible or not nearly as exciting as Woo wanted you to think it was. Woo's deal is that he tries to amaze you with his camera work in an attempt to divert your attention from the paper thin plot and characters. And seriously, that gun just happened to be buried at his feet in the sand? How creative. To sum up, Mission Impossible 2 is a brainless pseudo-action movie which plods along in a series of slow motion shots and shallow love scenes before exploding into a horribly unrealistic case study in idiocy.