Could have been MUCH better..

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2000)

First of all, I have to say that I love Mission: Impossible 1 and the Sixties TV show. M:I-2 is a bad sequel for both. The first half of the movie is an acceptable action movie, although I miss the certain "Mission: Impossible" touch. This special touch can only be felt at the scene where Ethan Hunt intrudes into a skyscraper, although the scene reminds me too much of an overdone version of the "computer room" scene of the first movie. After that scene the whole film is unrealistic in a way that you constantly feel it. There are too many unanswered questions ("how could Hunt have enough time to apply the mask to himself and his enemy?",...) and the whole thing with the motorcycle (which looks pretty cool in the trailer) is overdone. If a car hits a motorcycle from behind Hunt has to fall down! The last scene also was much too unspectacular in comparison to the rest of the movie. Two guys fistfighting might not be apropriate for a movie full of explosions and secret agents flying through the air. At one point when I was in cinema, everyone laughed out loud. In the same time the bad guy shoots at Hunt/Cruise, Hunt is able to - Throw the Virus to Luther - (physically impossible, looks terrible) kick a pistol in front of him into his own hand - and shoot the enemy.
Everybody who liked the first part should stay a way from the cinema.