This summer's big disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (27 May 2000)

Bruce Geller is turning over in his grave. The newest film installment of the Mission Impossible series is not deserving of the title. It is a mindless action movie, completely void of all that made Mission Impossible, both the first movie and the TV series, a superior movie and TV experience. John Woo has proved once again to be a very mildly talented director with only one thing in mind: how many bullets he can throw into a crappy movie. Rather than give people something new, Woo and Cruise have brought you a farce of an action movie. Granted, some of the action sequences are exciting at times, but I firmly believe that Mission Impossible should be about the story, and not about how many people Tom Cruise can kill. I recognize that I am looking at this from a perspective of what it should have been, and not what it is. It should have, could have been a much better movie. My advice to those of you looking for a movie to see this summer: go see Gladiator, Road Trip, Dinosaur, or anything else aside from M:I 2 for that matter.