Better than original, or at least more honest

Rating: 7/10 (21 December 2016)

After the first "Mission Impossible", I was thinking to delete the rest of this franchise without watching. But back then I bought the soundtrack for this movie because of the Metallica song that was not released anywhere else. And it was a pretty good soundtrack. Because of music, I decided to give this movie a fair chance and, to my surprise, it was not bad at all. I did not like the first one because it pretends to be a thriller that keeps you in suspense and it pretty much failed in that attempt. I'm not saying this one is more intelligent, but at least it does not pretend to be. This is a typical Woo action movie with lots of chasing, fighting and gunfire and, in own genre, it is really OK. If you don't have high expectations you will enjoy in well-done adrenaline rush scenes and that's all. And it has a cute babe in the lead female role.
7/10