Total Disappointment

Rating: 1/10 (8 August 2002)

I usually remember movies for a very long time after I see them. I think its significant that I barely remember anything about this movie except that I didn't like it.
As interesting and exciting as the first Mission Impossible movie was, that was how dull and flat this movie was. It just seemed like they strung together a bunch of the bits that worked from the first movie and gave Tom Cruise's character long hair and called it a different movie.

There was a plot, I guess, I think, maybe. I remember it largely involved Tom Cruise being in Australia.
As appealing as the characters in the first movie were, that's how cold, and hard to relate to as they were in the second movie.
John Woo's style of film-making appeals to a certain type of person. I'm not entirely sure what type of person this is, but I don't know whether I'm anxious to meet any of them, because every movie of his I've seen has been cold, mean, and violent.
I think that the best way to sum up MI2 is this: Suppose you were good friends with someone. You liked their company, you shared the same sense of humor, and had the same moral value. Suppose several years went by and you didn't see him, then one day he turns up uninvited at your house. He acts like a total jerk, insults you, hits on your wife, and finally demands that you loan him money. That's how I felt about "Mission Impossible II"