The Worst "WOO" yet! Total disappointment!

Rating: Null/10 (27 May 2000)

Well, I have to admit that I went to see MI2 with extremely high expectations. Tom Cruise + John Woo + Big Budget had to equal something special right?.... Wrong! What I ended up with wasn't your slam-bam thank you maam "Woo-type" movie as the MI2 trailer would suggest. Instead, what we end up with is a mediocre Mission. The script was so simple and unadventurous that I wonder how horrible the original draft of the screenplay really was (Cruise delayed this film months "fine-tuning" it). I almost feel sorry for Woo. It is very evident that this combination (Woo+MI) just didn't work. The movie started at a snails pace (very "Bond" like) and exploded at the end. The action in the last half hour is outstanding and true to Woo form... but unfortunately what we're left with is an unbalanced film. Woo fans, like myself, we're hoping for this insanely paced action throughout while some Mission Impossible fans will actually be disappointed with the route these final action scenes take the film to it's ultimate, and unsuspensful, ending. I would have been much more pleased had the movie made up it's mind to be either a film in the style of the first Mission Impossible or a John Woo slugfest. Unfortunately they tried to give the audience both and, from my perspective, failed. Mission Impossible fans, stick to the original - John Woo fans, go watch Face/Off one more time.