As many thumbs down as possible :(

Rating: 1/10 (27 May 2000)

Have you ever gotten an MRI? Sitting in that metal tube for what feels like hours, not being able to move? If not, make an appointment now, because it has GOT to be more entertaining than "Mission Impossible 2". The impossible mission is trying to enjoy this movie. Besides the highly publicized mountain climbing scene and a car chase, nothing much happens in the way of action for over an hour. By the time the action does start, it's too little too late. People change faces more times than Michael Jackson. But you can usually figure out who it really is before they reveal themselves. During the movie, an alarm went off in the theater. I felt a strange peace settle over me, thinking it would be better to die in a fiery blaze then watch the rest of this movie but, alas, I was forced to suffer through the rest of this debacle. If you sped up John Woos signature slow motion to real time, the movie would be about 30 minutes shorter and, not so coincidentally, the movie is about 30 minutes too long. The special effects are good but, as we learned from terrible movies like "Wild Wild West" and "Battlefield Earth", you need more than special effects to carry a movie. If you see one action movie this summer, make it the incredibly funny and entertaining "Shanghai Noon", not "Mission Impossible 2".