This mission soon self destructs from your brain after watching it.

Rating: 6/10 (19 March 2010)

I enjoyed this Mission Impossible more than the first film. At least I think I do, to be honest I hardly recall the movie at all. Granted it has been since 2000 since I saw the movie, but even if you asked me about it a month after I saw it I would still have trouble recollecting it. In fact, I may have liked it less possibly? Not really, I liked it a tad more only because it had more action in it, but that is really all that it has in it. A much more shallow film that one has to wonder is it even an actual sequel to the original film. Sure Cruise is back as Ethan Hunt and Ving Rhames is back too, but it just seems to be happening totally independent of the first film. The first film may as well not exist as you certainly do not have to see the first film to understand or enjoy what is happening in this one. Or the third film for that matter. The only thing in common these films share other than the name and Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt is that they all are kind of forgettable movies. This one being the most so, basically a summer popcorn flick one quickly forgets upon leaving the theater back in the day. This one has Hunt going after some sort of guy making some deadly virus I think. Do not quote me on that though, the only things I remember clearly about this one is the cool fight at the end between Cruise and the guy that came close to being Wolverine in the X-man movies, but instead chose to do this film and the scenes with the very attractive gal and Hunt trying to recruit her. Oh yes, also the strange and pointless addition of Anthony Hopkins and the rock climbing scene too. Cruise is just an enigma though, he seems like he could star in really good films and I am sure there are a couple of really good ones that I have yet to see, but he ends up playing in mostly forgettable fare. I think the highest score for a film that he has been in that I have seen is an 8 for part three. I only gave it that high mainly because of the addition of a memorable bad guy. Nice one of these mindless Mission films had something that was actually memorable in it. I can not believe they are actually making a fourth.