Excellent big-budget candy-floss.

Rating: Null/10 (12 June 2000)

Oh, all you critics who criticise this film (bemusingly, one lady even criticises it for the feminist implications of the heroine's imperfect character development - a startlingly unfair criticism for a mindless bit of blokey action fluff like this) are spoil-sport boobs. This is a far superior film to the the first Mission: Impossible, in only inasmuch as it is all the more wowing in its effects and its cinematography.
M:I2 is never boring, never dull, always silly and fascinating and fast and fun. It's not a clever movie, but anyone who would expect it to be has clearly been asleep for the last twenty years of mindless cinema history.
The real star of the movie is Sydney, which - along with the beautiful rock-climbing locations in the States - provides a predictably stunning backdrop for the best bits of the action, and serves as the anonymous location of almost all of the film's scenes (including everything which purportedly takes place in Spain). The action is fast and furious, and the film is definitely worth a look.
If you're willing to leave your brain at the door, you'll love it.