Not as good as the first one

Rating: 5/10 (31 January 2001)

While this was not a painful movie to watch, it certainly disappointed. It also had some extremely annoying aspects such as trying to be stylish or artsy by slowing a scene way down for no apparent reason. The result was cheesy and cliched.
Actually, the whole movie could be described as cheesy and cliched. Sure, there were lots of COOL explosions, Sydney looked gorgeous and Tom Cruise was Tom Cruise. It could be called mildly entertaining but it missed in so many ways. The dialogue was insipid, Thandie Newton carried this love struck cow look on her face throughout most of the film, there were a lot of unbelievable parts (how convenient that the bad guys happened to have a land cruiser on hand to chase Cruise with)and it wasn't nearly as clever as it tried to be.
I hope they don't go for MI III in this vein. Hopefully, it will be more creative next time.