92 million dollars in the opening week-end? Are you people nuts?!

Rating: 6/10 (29 May 2000)

"Mission: Impossible 2" is a huge disappointment. This movie is in serious need of originality. The film makers use exactly the same technology used in the original movie. This movie uses more masks than needed. When there isn't a plot, we get masks. Another thing that the movie has plenty of, is predictability. When Nyah has the virus syringe in her hands, I said to myself she's gonna infect herself. And what do you know, she did. Or when Ambrose's assistant brings Hunt in cuffs and unable to speak? I realized instantly that the masks were responsible again. There were times when I hoped not to be right. Even the simplest idea, something that wouldn't be obvious, would do. But no.
Let me get from the plot to the musical score. Hans Zimmer, shame on you! What is this?! You used the theme music so many times, that it became nauseating. Your "Gladiator" music was a stroke of genius, and now you give me this garbage!
The acting was good to OK. Tom Cruise is effective as usual and so is Thandie Newton. Even in action movie, she still impresses (she was very good in "Beloved"). However, Dougray Scott needs a villainy infusion. He's very general and unthreatening. He requires villainy lessons from Tim Roth (probably the best movie villain) and Robert Carlyle (from "The World Is Not Enough"). Even Joaquin Pheonix (from "Gladiator") was better.

Yet the movie has some suspenseful and cool scenes. Only for that, this movie gets a 6/10.
P.S.: Want better action with a whole lot more of originality, and with a brain as well? Go see or re-see Ridley Scott's masterpiece "Gladiator". It will leave you much more satisfied.