a.k.a. Tom Cruise:2, Return of The Ego

Rating: 2/10 (19 June 2000)

In a significant departure from the television series, MI:2, rather than focusing on team tactics and specializations, instead make Cruise a one-man army. Although he was directed to choose other team members, these members provided a minimal, negligible contribution and might as well have performed as taxi drivers. All the 'important' and dramatic tasks fell to Cruise himself, while tasks a trained monkey could perform were given to everyone else. Although the action sequences were frequent and Tom Cruise deserves kudos for performing many of the stunts himself, the movie was impossibly shallow and devoted purely to having him on center-screen for over two hours. The only saving grace of the film was director John Wu's attempt to add a little artistic flair to the direction, but a painting made of dung is still dung.