More like Mission: Tom Cruise

Rating: Null/10 (19 June 2000)

I recently travelled to the United States, whilst out there I was given the opportunity to visit the cinema. After much thought I decided to go and see MI:2, so that I could return to England full of info on one the summer's biggest movies to dazzle my mates with. Bad idea! MI:2 is the worst Tom Cruise film I have ever seen. The only thing impossible about this film was to actually enjoy it. O.k the stunts were well executed and the action was pretty non-stop, but that was all it was good for, It seemed to me that it was really an excuse for TC to get laid and look good in as many stunts as possible. The whole film had a really irritating undercurrent of a major love interest which hindered more than helped. The first half an hour was TC chasing a women (admittedly very beautiful) around and not really getting into the job at hand. This stopped the character from thinking straight which may be o.k in some people's books but to me took the whole meaning of Mission:impossible away. The rest of the film was taken up with TC in slow motion looking cool. MI:2 is a bad copy of a James Bond movie or even worst a double for anything by Steven Seagal. Soundtrack was disappointing also, the Adam Clayton/Larry Mullen version of the Lalo Schifrin classic was much better than this films heavy metal racket. I always thought better of Tom Cruise, his films have always been strong without the actual need for him to carry them. This one was produced by him and it showed a mile off (Shades of Clint Eastwood) I wish now I had gone to see the opening 'Gone in 60 seconds' or 'Road trip' and waited for Mission Impossible to appear on the shelves at Blockbuster.