Mission: Absurd

Rating: Null/10 (3 August 2000)

We who have seen the original show with stars Steven Hill, Martin Landau and Peter Graves expect, as in that show, lots of super-critical situations to be team-solved with extra-intelligence by a group of ultra qualified agents. What we obtain in Mr. Woo's movie is nothing but highly violent action and Jackie Chan acrobatic stuff mixed with High Tech Gizmos and environments and Once a Thief's slow motion resources. OAT was the very one really superb thing that came from Woo, but that simply doesn't work in MI2. Cruise works here as a one man team, just as if it happen to be Bond's Goldeneye or Tomorrow never dies (which, as a matter of fact, are not even a shadow of Connery's Bond movies). It is clear that there is a misconception of the title, certainly. It didn't happen to be Mission: Impossible or 'Mission: Difficult', but Mission: Absurd.