A disappointment.

Rating: 1/10 (30 May 2000)

This movie is a disappointment for fans who like the TV series or the 1st movie. Instead of building the movie around things that make the TV series so popular, such as careful mission planning, inventive gadgets, teamwork, and having a mission that is actually impossible, MI-2 relies heavily on slow-motion action, good looking sporty cars and motorcycles, exotic locations, which makes the movie look cheap artistically.
Tom Cruise kept diving left and right in slow motion while shooting a few bullets at the villains the whole time. And that is about all there is to the movie. MI-1 is so much better because the mission itself is impossible, but MI-2 looks like Rambo taking on a whole army by himself without being shot or even scratched. It is just so shallow.