A Movie by John WOOOW!

Rating: 10/10 (25 February 2001)

Mission Impossible I. Was an OK Movie, good but not fantastic. My expectations on the sequel were not very high but John Woo is my favorive director so it couldn´t be boring at least. After only 5 minutes i realised that this was not an ordinary actionmovie.
The start (planecrash/rockclimbing) is so thrilling and entertaining that your eyes pops out!
Then Woo accelerate.
The plot is not the brightest i have seen, but i works perfect with the energy of the film and is not so confused as M:i-1.
Tom C mission is to find a deadly virus stolen by a mad australian, Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) by contacting his ex-girlfriend Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton) and convince her to help him.
This feels a bit like a combination of a Hong Kong movie and a James Bond film. The Action-sequences are so unrealistic that you don´t even think about if it can be don! And they are one of the best i have seen ever!
Woo is the man and this is his best movie ever! And the 2nd best actionmovie ever (T2 is the best). It´s so cool that it´s almost a Comedy.
I have only one complain: The fight is far too long and too brutal (no blood, but brutal in another way). But that is what Woo does best, Terrible Beauty.
See it, that a direct order!