Snorefest

Rating: 4/10 (21 April 2002)

Some of the stunts in MI:2 are great but that's all can be said for it. The dialogue is terrible, the plot is boring and the twists and turns are laughably far fetched. John Woo made a terrible career move when he directed this clunker.
What plot there is involves stealing a virus before the bad guy can get it but it does so in such a ham handed way that you just don't care. Nor for the zero-chemistry romance between Cruise & Newton. Worse yet, there is hardly any originality here, all the Mission Impossible tricks are ripoffs from the first movie - rubber masks (employed multiple times), computer hacking, dangling on wires, breaking into a building etc. It's just desperate how cliched it all is.