Mission: Mundane - Action: Awesome!

Rating: 7/10 (1 June 2000)

For a mission impossible movie the actual impossible stuff was pretty limited. Unlike the first film, you saw very few gadgets and there was also very little in the way of espionage either... One thing this movie had a lot of, though, was guns and action! The fight scenes were incredible and Tom Cruise almost does more martial arts than Jet Lee in Romeo Must Die. Definitely stamped well and truly with John Woo's trademarks and the whole film has a lot more in common with Hong Kong cinema than with the original Mission Impossible TV series (well except for all the mask switching that goes on).
The only part I didn't like was the way the big romance developed - too deep too quick therefore unconvincing. You expect there to be a Mission: Implausible but generally the characterisations are decent - this love match was not.
If you like action and don't care particularly how realistic it is, then you will LOVE this film.