Piece of Junk.

Rating: 2/10 (19 June 2015)

Mission: Impossible 2 (2000): Dir: John Woo / Cast: Tom Cruise, Thandie Newton, Dougray Scott, Ving Rhames, Richard Roxburgh: A bigger budget action film with double the stupidity and makes absolutely no sense. It opens on a plane that has just left Sydney Australia. Passengers are gassed out while the villain, played by Dougray Scott makes off with a briefcase that contains a monster virus. It causes a massive cell destruction when injected. Tom Cruise returns and is assigned to track down the virus and anti-virus and return to headquarters. Plagued with stupidity such as Tom Cruise scaling a mountain and defying the laws of gravity. There are dumb sexual situation between Cruise and Thandie Newton that come off as corny. And the whole sudden available lifelike masks render no sense at all. How can he have masks of people he hasn't met? Directed by John Woo who can do action as he proved with the far superior Face Off, but that film had substance where as this one is just pure junk. He could have played smash up derby against a brick wall and made more sense than what he concocts here. Cruise is difficult to accept here because he defies logic too much. Scott plays the standard villain who will go down to a fist fight or possible explosion. Newton plays damsel in one of those flimsy rescue scenes. Ving Rhames returns from the first film. Well made but too pointless, stupid and impossible. Score: 2 / 10