Not Up to Mission: Impossible Standards.

Rating: 6/10 (24 May 2000)

With its predictable overuse of the pull-off latex face masks coupled with the movie's overall predictability and lack of suspense that all spy movies, especially Mission: Impossible, should have, this movie would've made a better stand-alone action flick than a Mission: Impossible flick. I went in expecting high-tech, breathtaking, and at least somewhat suspenseful spy scenes with the constant fear of Ethan getting caught hanging in the air; all I received was a trite, predictable plot with far too many people wearing the masks of their enemy. I mean, the only thing this movie lacked was a guy wearing a mask of himself over his own face to try and fool the audience into thinking it was his enemy. Well, it would've worked...