Completely Laughable

Rating: 6/10 (24 October 2001)

M.I.2
-- 05/29/00
I must say this for all of you who loved the first MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, please _do not_ waste your time with MI2. Believe you me, if you have any usable brain cells at all, you will find this film slow, slight on content, and unintentionally--I hope--hilarious (as far as the action sequences of the third act go). I mean, come on, the glowing, pearly white dove was ridiculous! The female co-star spent the entire film in career enhancing close-ups and slow motion. And the chicken scene on the motorcycles was laugh out loud funny.
My friend had to hold his head down in shame once the movie was over, but I did not tease him. There was no way in the world that he could have known the depths of stupidity and hokiness that MI2 would go.

Was directoral control taken away from the Great John Woo or what? I most certainly enjoyed his THE BIG HIT (7/10) more, yet I did not even think that that was all the good either. But at least THE BIG HIT in no way took itself seriously. I found MI2 to be so obviously bad that I was ready to leave after the first ten minutes (and I never walkout on films).

6/10