Mission Impossible II: Cruise Control - hahah !

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2000)

I didn't want to see this movie on principle, since the first movie was just crap - I mean as if Mr Phelps is going to be evil - yeah right. However, I got dragged to see this film. I wish I hadn't seen it - I might have thought more of it.
Tom Cruise's (who produced it) face is planted all over the big screen in just about every shot. He thinks he's James Bond. Sleeping with a leading lady and doing everything himself !
I mean ... what about more interaction from the IMF team. They might as well not have been there.
The TV show was always about out-witting the bad guys with some sort of set-up. This is what I really loved about the IM franchise.
Some of the stunts are inconsistent and have no continuity. ie. Tom going flat-tack on a motorbike, then pivoting the bike on the front wheel and somehow coming to an abrupt stop (also while firing his gun at least 5-6 times blowing a car up).
Tom you can't deny the laws of physics and inertia.
The only thing I liked was - it was filmed in AUSTRALIA - even though I wasn't too keen on the images of us.
By this I mean, one minute we are in the heart of Sydney (a thriving CBD - home of the Olympics 2000) and next they are in the Outback with sheep and an old tin shed.
In the TV show, the IMF Force always setup their base camp not far from the scene of where they were trying to dupe someone.
I'm sorry but that doesn't gel ... the outback is NOWHERE NEAR the city.
(4/10)