A Secret Agent's Impossible Mission To Australia

Rating: 2/10 (8 October 2011)

Tom Cruise reprises his role as Ethan Hunt,a secret agent of the IMF,whose new impossible mission sends him this time to Australia. This is the second installment of the new Mission Impossible series.This time it is directed by John Woo and it also stars Dougray Scott,Thandie Newton,Rade Serbedzija and an uncredited Anthony Hopkins.
In this new Mission Impossible movie,Ethan Hunt has been sent on a mission to retrieve and destroy the supply of Chimera,a genetically disease that was created to inflict disease to people around the world. One obstacle to his mission is that international terrorists headed by a former agent,Ambrose,portrayed excellently by Dougray Scott. He has successfully stolen Bellerophon,the cure for the said disease and now needs Chimera to complete their evil plan of killing millions of people around the world.In this mission, IMF assigns Hunt to include Nyah Nordoff-Hall,played by Thandie Newton, a professional thief, for she is the only possible means to get close to Ambrose due to the fact that both are former lovers.A love triangle also ensues as both Hunt and Nyah gets close to one another.
The movie is clichéd but it is entertaining in the sense that the action scenes were directed average enough for a typical action film by John Woo.Lots of thrills,fun and excitement were definitely there for action fans as well as Tom Cruise fans.Not too many thinking is needed in the story.A viewer who loves films of this kind will never be disappointed. Everyone knows that the eventually,Ethan Hunt is going to be successful in his mission and he ends up with Nyah when the end credits rolls.
Overall,the the second film just like the first film is not at the level of the original classic TV series nor the revival classic TV series shown in the 80's.