Been there and seen that

Rating: 6/10 (4 June 2000)

Most of the reviews gives the movie such high praise and it is at the top of the box office list right now, but I must say that I am surprise that most everyone finds it to be so good. The reason I say this is because I did see it also, I did enjoy it and the special effects were cool, but it seemed to be a move where thirty percent of it was put together from ideas created in other movies. Case in point. In the opening scene where Ethan Hunt is on vacation and IMF has to track him down to send him on another mission. They find him rock climbing. The special effects for the scene were very good and only someone with a death wish would have made the leap the character (Mr. Hunt) did in that scene, but guess what. Paramount Pictures did the same opening scene in a movie called Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, where Captain Kirk was on vacation and the Enterprise tracked him down to send him on another mission. They found the Captain rock climbing in Yellow Stone National Park. This movie, Star Trek V came out in 1989. So I expected MI2 (2000) to give me something different from what I saw 11 years ago. There are many other stolen scenes as well in MI2 but I won't talk about them because I want to leave something for others to talk about.
The plot from the bad guy point of view does hit the mark when you apply the same theory to today's reality. Although I don't think many of the previous reviews have picked up on that fact yet or maybe someone left it for me to talk about. The idea is this, a new deadly virus has just been created, so lets steal it and the antidote, introduce the virus to the public and sale the antidote to a pharmaceutical company for fifty or sixty million dollars and let them resale it back to the public. In other words people will pay through the noise for legal drugs that will give them a cure, and in today's world with AIDS and Herpies they are paying out of the other end for a promise of a cure. Do you think this idea is just a coincidence or maybe that some things that happen in real life are carried over into movies?
There and three leading roles in the movie and they all do an excellent job under the direction of John Woo. They are the reason it does so well at the box office, because without them it would be just another made for TV movie.