the problem with changing directors ...

Rating: Null/10 (5 June 2000)

This was a very bad film. Not mind-numbingly awful, but very bad, nevertheless. One of the previous commentators (from Melbourne, I believe) had it right: violence everywhere, to the detriment of everything else.
Now balletic violence is John Woo's thing, and I'll admit there's a fluidity (if no actual realism) to the fight scenes. But there's a fluidity to sewers, too, and that doesn't make them any nicer to watch for minutes at a time. The final fight sequence was especially tedious.
Switching directors from movie to movie in a franchise is not usually a good sign: the Alien movies are patchy, the Batman movies have spiralled into oblivion (I hope). Bond has survived due to embracing its traditions, and strong creative control from the Broccoli family. Mission Impossible:2 jettisoned most of its identifying tags, and has nothing left to replace them.
To conclude: someone got John Woo to do a (rather weak) John Woo movie, and put the MI label on it. Everyone goes home cheated.