Mission Impossible 2 a disgrace to the entire franchise

Rating: 3/10 (2 July 2006)

Mission Impossible 2 is anything but a spy movie, which is what the whole Mission: Impossible story is supposed to be based off of. The first movie installment of the series contained a very complicated plot that, although was highly criticized, forced the viewer to keep his attention glued to the movie. Mission Impossible 2, however, lacks any type of believable story. There are significant plot holes thruout the film, including the scene towards the end of the film when Tom Cruise puts a mask of himself on the face of the second-main villain. Where did that mask come from? Furthermore, where did he get a mask of the villain from to place on his own head? A significant plot hole that symbolizes the unbelievably poor storyline to begin with. This movie has close to NO resemblance of the original "spy" story that Mission Impossible became so loved for. Rather, it is simply a John Woo-directed action movie that happens to star Tom Cruise and contains ridiculously unrealistic action sequences and MAJOR plot holes. Anyone that actually paid money to see this film wasted both their money and the time it took to watch the film. It was VERY disappointing for die hard fans of the first Mission Impossible movie, which had a greatly written storyline, and were expecting the same solid story from the second movie. This movie is a disgrace to the Mission Impossible franchise and I am shocked that they went ahead and made a third installment. M: i III, however, made up for M:i 2's dismal performance and then some.