John Woo Never Fails to WowHigh-Styled & Glossy...Extreme Entertainment

Rating: 8/10 (2 July 2016)

Action Auteur John Woo is in Full Throttle and His Unequaled Ultra-Stylish Fingerprints are all over this Sequel that more than makes up for the Lack of Action in the First Film that was more Cerebral where this one Goes for the Visceral.
In Fact, both Movies were heavily Criticized for being "what they were". It seems You "Can't please everyone, so You gotta please yourself."
Woo has the most Graceful, Sleek, and Eye-Pleasing way of Amping Action Sequences just a Notch Above Reality and while Hardly Believable in a Real-World sense, it is all the more Appealing in a Story-Book Template. Woo makes No Apologies in the way He knows this is Not Reality but High-Styled Entertainment.
Entertaining it is. A-List Talent all around in this Breath-Taking Behemoth of a Summer Movie-Popcorn Fun. Tom Cruise will Never be Accused of being a Great Actor, but there is Something about His Screen Persona that is Appealing and He seems to Fit the Groove of these things.
The rest of the Cast all fall in line as well. The Script (Robert Towne) is Intellectually Stunted and is Minimal in its Concerns for Logic because it is Far Fetched to say the least. The Never Failing to Fail Rubber Masks are an example of the Extreme Suspension of Disbelief that Woo and the Filmmakers Ask of the Audience.
The Music is Striking and if Anyone Says You don't get Your Money's Worth with this Pop-Culture Picture than They fall into the Camp of the most Cynical, Jaded, and Grumpy of Contrarians that Populate Current Conventional Film Criticism.
This is Simply a Movie that Delivers the Goods on Everything Essential to Glossy Movie Entertainment.