Impossibly stupid! Spoilers to follow.

Rating: 1/10 (1 June 2000)

I would warn those reading of spoilers but if you've seen the trailers for MI:2 you've already seen the whole movie. I couldn't believe it was over when Tom (big surprise) offed the bad guy. I was still waiting to see something - anything - I hadn't already seen. Every single action shot - every motorcycle trick, every explosion, every slow-motion kick, was in the trailer. The problem for the promotion department is that there is nothing else in this movie. It is a void. The story is extremely derivative - every Hollywood cliche dumped into a sausage press and lethargically cranked out. To say that the characters are cardboard would be an exaggeration - cardboard is at least a quarter inch deep. No motivations, no interaction, no good dialog - I think there were two lines that was supposed to be funny. I wasn't expecting Shakespeare but I expected a lot more from John Woo. The were only two - TWO!?! - un exciting, un original, and very short action sequences separated by interminable exposition. (As opposed to John Woo's Hardboiled of which the final third was one long, wild and amazing shootout that takes place in a hospital full of patients and new born babies. Now that's original!) Hollywood can produce films with good characters and exciting action like Gladiator and make a ton of money so why do they continue to make horrendous trash like MI:2?