Summer's best let-down

Rating: Null/10 (28 May 2000)

First off, bring a book or a gun or something to the movie. It doesn't get remotely interesting for the first half of the movie at all, focusing on a relationship and some other crap that doesn't belong in Mission: Impossible and certainly not in a John Woo film. Then stuff finally happens and you get your money's worth. Then why is it a let-down? With the action genre's heightened expectations because of THE MATRIX and because of the director, John Woo, I and many others were expecting no less than the best action movie ever. Instead, we got just run of the mill action with tired sequences. Yes, there are a few good stunts and it's surprising to see Cruise do as many as he did. However, the last fight between Ambrose and Hunt was dull and predictable, which is a horrible way to end a movie. If you want to see a good action flick, then rent a much better Woo film, HARD-BOILED. That's some of the best, most memorable action ever. MI:2 wasn't. End of story.