Good movie but a bit of a letdown.

Rating: 6/10 (7 June 2000)

For those of us who really enjoy movies, most of you have heard of Mission Impossible 2. Besides X-Men this is the most hyped movie of the year. I myself being a big fan of the first film I was very excited for the second. Having seen the first trailer back in 1999 M.I2 became no. 2 movie to see (After Gladiator). Unfortunately it was a bit of a letdown.
In short the plot concerns Tom Cruise's cool guy Ethan Hunt from the first M.I flick recovering a stolen virus that kills people very quickly. This virus is stolen by rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose.
This is an interesting idea and since its very much a supervirus only Ethan Hunt can recover it.
The problem with this film is that everything in this film is under developed. In the first film Ethan wasn't a super-hero but, for some reason in this film he is. Luther from the first film is back except he just sits behind a computer. Sean Ambrose is a great villan but is denied enough screen time to develop. The best point of this movie is the relationship between Anthony Hopkins and Tom Cruise. Their is a certain amount of not trusting each other one can feel, but once again it's under developed. The other thing that bothered me is that Ethan took no time to figure out the villan's plan contrary to the first film where it took him the whole movie to figure things out.
The good points of this movie is that as normal Tom Cruise is dead on in his performance as is Dougray Scott. The action is great but contrary to what most people are expecting this movie has only 2 big action moments (Both of which rock :). This is a spy movie which is good and keeps this film from becoming a generic boring action flick.
I have to say that so far so good for the Mission Impossible series. Keep things up and it could be bigger than Bond.
***Â½ out of *****