A slow Action flick

Rating: Null/10 (29 May 2000)

MI-2 is a slow moving both in plot and actual filming. There were more slow motion scenes in this movie than in the entire run of the 6 Million Dollar man. Tom Cruise walks through a crowd in slow motion for no reason, There was nothing in the backgound to notice just Tom walking. These slow motion scenes get anoying, you know what is going to happen but you have to sit through it and some of the action scenes that are in slow motion are ruined because of the slow motion. Action scenes need to be seen at regular speed to get the desired effect. Slow motion action scenes look fake.
Again the plot involves a renagade IMF agent (Phelps in Mission Impossible and Sean Ambrose in MI-2) going bad. I would not want to work for the IMF everyone goes bad.
Again the movie is basically Tom Cruise and every one else. Mission Impossible the series was about the IMF team, this movie, like the first, is about one person: Ethan Hunt.
It is hard to believe Tom Cruise and Thandie Newton fall so deeply in love with each other after one night I don't think Tom would go to the same lengths for his own wife and she can act.
I would not recommend seeing this movie in the theater, renting it yes as at home you can do something else for the middle 80 minutes.