What a waste of my time.

Rating: 1/10 (21 July 2000)

This movie was so terrible, I only stayed to watch it because I needed to ride home with the other people I was with. I must say that the scene in the beginning was enough to make my palms sweat while sitting there. Since I am an avid rock climber, I could relate to the situation well. However, the scene was ruined when he made the impossible jump from ledge to ledge. Unless Ethan has gecko hands, he would never have held on. This was prelude to the rest of the movie where I saw uncountable numbers of COMPLETELY unrealistic things happening. ranging from technical impossibilities to the the laws of physics being beligerantly ignored. If a movie is going to capture an audience it has to make the image that it COULD happen, and this was not the case with MI2.
I managed to entertain myself with trying to figure out how short the movie would have been if John Woo made the action scenes real-time. After about 15 minutes it got to be just unbearable to watch more of the slow motion that had no purpose. Shots that really had no dramatic effect were slowed to the typical Woo speed. I saw many scenes that would have been really cool, and adrenaline pumpers if they had been left at full speed.
Besides all of the bad directing, and absense of any physical laws, the plot was unimaginitive, and boring. The characters were not properly developed. The whole movie was depending on the action scenes, which frankly, made me want to wretch.