Ethan Hunt is back with a new director!

Rating: 9/10 (31 March 2008)

Mission: Impossible II is the sequel to the 1996 blockbuster where this time around Face/Off director, John Woo, takes charge behind the seat to give the audience what the first movie should have been in the first place.
Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) is on vacation climbing mountains where he gets interrupted by his boss (Anthony Hopkins in an uncredit cameo) that a mad agent (Dougray Scott of Ever After) who used to work with Hunt and the agency has plans of his own after a plane crashed in the Rocky Mountains where he has the biochemical weapons to end half the world. The chemical is known as Chimara where once the person is injected with the substance, it'll only be a matter of time before the body rots and infect half an entire population.
Hunt is on the lookout for Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton), one hot babe who used to date Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) in which he wants her on his team along with using Nyah to sneak whatever information Sean has about the chemicals and report. They fall in love at the same time where mixing work and pleasure isn't a good idea. Ethan also brings his former partner in crime Luther (Ving Rhames), a computer high tech engineer who tracks and traces anybody with his computers. The fourth member is Billy Baird (John Polson) who provides comic relief as a helicopter pilot along with disguising himself whenever possible.
The real reason to love Mission: Impossible 2 is the action that John Woo brings to the screen. You gotta hand it to him when it comes to wham/bam/thank you ma'am scenes that make you want to rewind on your DVD player to watch along with mixing emotion to make this film one bad-ass movie. Everything about this film sizzles where every frame is just hot after another.