Mission Improbable 2 ****-

Rating: 10/10 (8 July 2000)

Actually I thought this was rather good,if a little (OK a lot) far fetched but very easy plot to follow almost dumbing down compared to MI1 which was more surreal and always required close attention. It is certainly more fun that MI1 and with more than a little American James Bond feel about it with the cars the girl & the gadgets. You can tell who jointly produced it because it certainly is a slick "Cruise" vehicle ensuring our Mr C looks extremely good indeed at every opportunity, ie like the improbable rockface scene & slow motion shot flamenco bar scene in Portugal (or was it Spain?) I believe he did most of the stunts of which there are many. The production and soundtrack is very good, however I would have thought the visible hydraulic ram mechanism used for rolling vehicles would be digitised out by now.
There's a lot of shooting and MR C seems to be an amazing marksman considering the positions he gets into. It is an action (cliche) packed romp which needs to be seen on as big a screen as possible with as good a sound system as possible, If you like Mr Cruise (who seems to get better looking as he gets older, the swine) you'll love this, if you dont you'll probably still enjoy it. Dont look too deeply its not supposed to be Shakespeare although as usual I expect the stuffy intellectual types will give it a hard time, but I enjoyed it