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Rating: 4/10 (27 May 2000)

The credits should acknowledge Ben Hecht for writing Notorious (1946). Remember that movie? Alfred Hitchcock directed, with Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, and Claude Rains. The whole "spy reluctantly sends girlfriend to play double agent" plot is ripped off from Notorious. Even the balcony scene and race track settings were stolen from that movie!
Not that M:I2 isn't entertaining, in a ridiculous, over-the-top sort of way.