Too much to live up to.....

Rating: Null/10 (21 June 2000)

When I went to see this movie I was expecting something like the first Mission: Impossible. I wasn't entirely disappointed. The action, you have to admit, was pretty good. Like when Hunt was almost stabbed in the eye with that knife. That was a great shot. That's the kind of stuff that makes you sit up and say, "Whoa!" (The thing about the action was that they showed almost all the good stuff in the previews so you know what was going to happen. You knew he was going to be hanging off the cliff, you knew that at some point in the movie the was going to be a motorcycle chase and they were going to jump at each other. You see so much of the movie in the previews you aren't surprised anymore.) But, anyway, I admit they left some holes in the plot such as how Ethan feel in love with Nyah so quickly, but that didn't make the movie entirely bad.
What you have to remember is that Mission: Impossible was good, you might even say great. And MI:2 had a lot to live up to. Maybe the movie itself wasn't so bad, but with people going into the theater thinking they are going to see something like the first, you are bound to have some disappointment. What I suggest is that for MI:3, get the original director back and make a good one. Movie prices are so high today that people can't afford to be disappointed.