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Summary: Entertaining Action Movie
Review: This movie had a lot of action as I'd expected from a John Woo movie. I enjoyed it. This is one of the best movie's I've seen recently. I expected to be entertained. I was.
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Summary: One neuron short of a passing thought
Review: Very little can be said about this movie. Don't waste your time with purchasing it. It may be worth wasting $4. on a rental, but thats it! This movie was dull,un-interesting, bland, a travesty of all that is holy in action films. Yes there was a time when an action film had a good story. These days all we get are cartoon special effects, bad acting, (Who the hell like's Cruise anyway?)and witty one liners my eight year brother thinks are funny. No amount of special features on these discs can be even a little consolation. I only gave it two stars because it made me laugh at how bad a movie can be.
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Summary: A great failure of a movie...
Review: MI2 is simply a bad movie. It is classified as an action movie but really most of it is not action, just bad dialogue. MI2's premise is not bad, Hunt trying to recover a deadly strain of influenza from his arch enemy, but it is all just flushed down the toilet. There is some action, but in no way does this film compare to its predecessor, very disappointing considering it was directed by one of the very best action directors of all time, John Woo. If you are a serious fan of MI or a Cruise fanatic then rent this (certainly don't buy it), however for casual fans of action films, you can do better by just watching the original again.
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Summary: NOT AS MUCH ACTION AS YOU THINK !
Review: THE BEGINING OF THIS MOVIE IS TO DAM BORING AND QUIET.ALL OF THE ACTION IS BASICALLY AT THE END OF THE MOVIE.THE STUNTS WERE REALLY GOOD.THE JUMPS,KICKS AND FLIPS ARE MORE REAL LIFE THAN "THE MATRIX" ANY DAY.THE MATRIX STUNTS ARE IMPOSSIBLE DO DO IN REAL LIFE,YEAH THERE IS IMPOSSIBLE STUNTS IN THIS MOVIE BUT ALOT OF THEM CAN BE DONE IN REAL LIFE,NOT HOLLYWOOD. THE MOTORCYCLE WAR WAS MY FAVORITE PART OF THE WHOLE MOVIE.THE 3 STARS I GAVE IT IS ONLY BECAUSE OF THAT REASON,"REAL LIFE STUNTS." RENT THIS MOVIE BEFORE BUYING IT.
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Summary: The real reason to watch MI2
Review: The only reason to watch MI2 is Dougray Scott!! I never even noticed Tom Cruise's character with Dougray Scott on the screen. He played Sean Ambrose brilliantly and I was cheering him on during the ending fight scenes. What Nyah Hall saw in Ethan Hunt I can never understand; his character was sooo boring!! Anyway, I only watch the scenes that Dougray Scott is in and thought he was the best actor in the movie.
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Summary: It sucked
Review: I am literally insulted by the stupididty of this movie..Ok so the mask thing worked ONCE in the first MI But Three times in the second?! give me a break..
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Summary: YAWN ! Another "Cruise Tribute to Cruise"
Review: The opening was beyond belief! The photography was spectacular and the stunts so unbelievable as to be, well, impossible. Of course, if you're a die-hard Cruise fan, "acting" or plausability are not material. The first hour was better than sleeping pills. The last parts had some pretty good (visually) scenes although still only designed as a tribute to the demigod Cruise. Everything else was just dumb. Glad I only rented this one and with a coupon... better yet.
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Summary: Great Action Film
Review: I think this is a great film!! There are great action scenes in it which make this film highly enjoyable. It is also set in the beautifull city of Sydney, which adds to the visual scenes of the movie. It wasn't a great plot, but it is definitly worth seeing.
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Summary: An all around bad film
Review: Mission: Impossible II (and not the dreadful promotional abridgement M:I2) is a callow collection of embarrassments. The script by the once untouchable but now unsalvageable Robert Towne (he of Chinatown and The Last Detail, but these days too busy authoring such unbearable wonders as the first Mission: Impossible film, The Firm, and Love Affair) is preposterously implausible from its introduction of IMF agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise, without a stuntman) climbing a mountain in Utah. In an effort to show that Hunt is a man who lives dangerously, Hunt suicidally leaps what appears to be thirty feet (the editing didn't really make this clear) from one rock face to another. With a drop of 1,500 feet below him. Just for the hell of it. Never mind that the likelihood of Hunt (or any human being) making this kind of jump with the kind of agile accuracy Hunt so easily displays is highly improbable or, as the case may be, quite "impossible". The purpose here presumably is for men to identify with such whimsical testosterone-based nonsense and to show that Hunt can live through any so-called "impossible" mission. And where's the charm in every facet of the Mission: Impossible universe being possible? I distinctly remember an "impossible" being in the title. The worst part is that in order to get to the film's blood, bullet, and octane-soaked moments, you have to sit through the film's first hour, which is poorly paced and incredibly dull. Not much of consequence occurs during the first half, which is all setup for the action later on. To make matters worse, the film is devoid of any truly interesting characters (or emotion for that matter), leaving most of the on-screen action as purely functional, from Ethan getting his assignment, to his contrived romance with Nyah, and to Ambrose illustrating how truly evil he is. Even the 'action' in this part of the film is flat, with only a mildly-interesting mid-air heist and a car chase blatantly ripped-off from "Goldeneye" to keep the audience awake. Furthermore, Woo's direction actually exacerbates the situation in this part of the film, since his slo-mo indulgences are far more glaring when there is actually nothing happening on the screen or in the story. There will be those who will probably be attracted to this tripe and the inevitable Woo apologists will proffer the despicable "it's just a comic book movie" defense. But Towne's script for Mission: Impossible II, which wasn't even completed at the beginning of production, is nothing more than a soiree of clichés and stock characters. And that's not the kind of thing we watch a John Woo film for.
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Summary: What the?
Review: After seeing the movie in the theaters I thought it was much better than the first, it is but only in the action category. It was full of action, and though I find the racing bike scene a little too far fetched for Tom Cruise or any person to whip a bike around the way he did. I did find the scene where he used the bike's rear view mirror to aim his gun and fire behind him something original and unique. But John Woo needs to A. stop using two guns in every movie, B. stop having the characters diving in mid air while they fire both of those guns in every movie, and C. don't use a wash out overrated actor like Tom Cruise for an action flick. Even Arnold at his old age does far better than Tom Cruise. After seeing it at first at the movies I gave it five stars; after seeing it at home and after reconsidering the pros and cons it sinks to three stars.
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