No resemblance to the Mission Impossible TV show

Rating: Null/10 (9 August 2001)

I agree with Mario64 that the movie is "closer to James Bond than Mission Impossible" and with treydown that the movie is "more of a James Bond type movie" and that "Tom Cruise is much better than Pierce Brosnan".
I did not see the first MI movie but I sure remember the TV series. What made the TV series so unusual is that the mission was planned and implemented by a team that had to work as a team. That is unusual in TV shows and in movies, especially for action movies and shows such as these.
In MI 2, we have a James Bond kind of guy winging it as he goes, except the story seems to be just a bunch of action scenes strung together, without the consistency of a good story. I consider the story to be far from the quality of a James Bond story.
The smart thing to do would have been to use Tom Cruise for James Bond because MI 2 is a Pierce Brosnan kind of show. But isn't James Bond British? Oh well.