Good action film!

Rating: 7/10 (8 April 2008)

I remember going go the cinema to watch MI2 and being quite pleasantly surprised! I was younger at the time, being maybe 16/17 and my desire for an intellectual driven plot was not particularly well formed as yet. But I think this was the film that made the transition for me, having a good story which was reasonably straightforward to understand and breathtaking action sequences (at the time) with 3 good actors that worked really well together.
I've noticed that many of the comments here for this film are pretty negative, and, I suppose, can understand why. In retrospect it is just your typical Hollywood, big-budget movie attempting to cash-in on an already successful franchise, but at the the same time, I don't think there's anything wrong with that. If it was a bad movie then obviously I'd think differently, but it's not at all! The cinematography in this movie is very well put together and the soundtrack score works really well also. In effect this all adds to a really good sense of atmosphere, portraying the classic good (Hunt) and evil (Ambrose). This is all held together by Nyah Nordoff Hall (Thandie Newton), an ex-girlfriend of Ambrose's and a new love interest for Hunt, which I'd say holds up pretty well. The action sequences are well put together, from the scenes in Utah with Cruise free-climbing a Mesa, the Biocyte skyscraper scene, to the Bare island scene..all well done I think.
Overall MI2 is an easy watching movie. If your going to take it seriously as a film then your going to be disappointed but if you like your action movies and Tom Cruise then you'll enjoy it. First film is better but it works well as a new genre to the Mission Impossible series.