Mission Possible

Rating: 5/10 (7 May 2015)

Everything that made Mission: Impossible rare has been peeled away. There's no intense set-pieces, no nifty gadgets and no kick-ass team. Mission: Impossible 2 is a not so impossible mission for one. Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt has the looks, fortitude and strength the women swoon over and the men crave to be. Stripped of it's unconventional anecdotes, John Woo's M:I-2 is just another generic action movie. Cruise's greatest feat is performed before the opening credits feature and the only aspect of an impossible mission comes from Hunt's love interest Nyah (Thandie Newton), who goes undercover to find out the whereabouts of a disease called Chimera from 'crime-lord' Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott in fine villainous form). For a good chunk of the film's second act, Ethan has little to do. Newton's work overstays its welcome. When the twists and turns eventually arrive it's too little, too late. At least Cruise, with his silky mane, looks like he's having a blast, it's just a pity it can't be said for the rest of us. Even the life-like face masks are missing. It's absence is only short lived. In the mean time, Cruise gallivanting the globe will have to do.