Doesn't seem like Mission:Impossible

Rating: 7/10 (1 June 2000)

This was one of my top 5 most anticipated films of the summer. I can't say it let me down, but I just didn't feel that I was watching a Mission:Impossible flick. The action sequences were terrific, Woo certainly did his job in that department. But, it seems that too much time was took working on the fx and not the story. The first film's plot was great, nice plot twists and it took a lot of thinking to understand it. This film's plot was nice, but I was expecting to have to think a lot more. I kept thinking, when is someone you think is on our side going to reveal that he isn't, but it never happened. Overall it was a good summer popcorn flick, it just didn't meet mine and many others expectations.