Mission Impossible: Look Again

Rating: Null/10 (10 August 2002)

When I first saw this, I felt that the original "Mission: Impossible" film had been outdone. John Woo is a proven action director and his work was on glorious display here. I like Tom Cruise, Ving Rhames and Anthony Hopkins (in an unbilled cameo), and Thandie Newton was quite beautiful. So what went wrong? While I was blown away the first time I saw "MI2," It got worse with repeated viewings and John Woo's famous slow motion got annoying (no offense to the great director himself, he's done better), a complete contrast to the original movie that actually got better with repeated viewings. This is by no means a bad movie but if you decide to rent the video, wait extremely long periods before watching it again. Just a way to prevent a decent movie from becoming boring.