I was hoping that this would be extremely underrated, but it's not!

Rating: 5/10 (4 August 2018)

With a heavy-handed dialogue that includes a lot of repeated lines, excessive use of slow motion technique, awkward romantic scenes, cringe-worthy melodramatic moments, tons of clichés, sequences that exist for nothing but manipulating, familiar plot, clumsy resolution, and nonsensical decisions. John Woo's MI II is more like a cheesy 007 movie that hasn't aged well. Even the "impossible mission" here lacks the tension the original has. Adding insult to injury, it is followed by a long boring scene that I almost fell asleep during it.
On the bright side, the last 20 minutes of the movie feature some of the best over-the-top action sequences I've seen in the this century. I'm not kidding, the action set pieces are staggering that I was about to forget how silly this movie is!
Also, the opening scenes that came before opening titles were kinda promising, and showed some cool technological equipments and devices.
It goes without saying that Tom Cruise is charming as ever specially with this Magnolia long hair.
(5/10)