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Summary: Why wasn't Peter Graves in this movie?
Review: This is no more a movie about Mission Impossible the TV series then the first film was. It really is all action and little or no story. It also seems to be a sign that Paramount is not making good movies anymore after VIACOM bought them out.
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Summary: Are you an idiot who enjoys being insulted? Then buy this!
Review: This is crap-ola. John Woo, who really should direct music videos and leave feature films alone, shoots a flick full of slow motion, fire, guns, more slow motion, insultingly improbable stunts (come on, the magic-tired-motorcycle that Tom Cruise can skate beside wearing boots and, when he tires of that, he can shoot backward, aiming with the side mirror?), clothing changes with a speed Clark Kent would envy, and hardcore heroes who fall in love after about 1 hour. Maybe if I scrape out what is left of my frontal lobe, which shrank markedly after viewing this tripe, my lizard-brain will allow me to enjoy all the rapidly moving lights and pictures on the screen.
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Summary: I would think it hard to make a boring action movie...
Review: I was very disappointed with this movie, though I admit my hopes were not high after the first one. Some of the special effects were glitzy but the action was poorly planned and the characters were poorly scripted.When people ask me why I pan this film, I have to bring up the motorcycle chase scene. We got bored in the middle of it. A motorcycle chase scene has to be pretty bad for you to get bored during it! Furthermore, the hand-to-hand combat was very poorly choreographed. You can tell neither Cruise nor his director has a good sense of how to make this believable. Most trained combat elites can do a flying kick into someone's chest and then land on their feet. The spin kick seen in the previews was the longest period of exciting material in the fight. Think back. That was less than one second. I was looking forward to seeing Thande Newton in this movie, but was disappointed in that she has a shallow, stupid role. The best part of her interaction with Cruise is when he goes to recruit her at a party --excellent camera work creates a very intense focus between them from across the room. But from the moment they speak to one another onward, the film goes downhill. Finally, the strategic presentation in this movie is miserable. These guys couldn't pull off Mission: Easy if they insist on looking like themselves in broad daylight during a dangerous rendevous with an agent who has infiltrated a gang led by someone who can recognize their entire crew... Scenes like that and the climactic scene where Cruise is racing an oncoming militia in order to save the world and he's moving .... at .... the ......... speed ..... of .... cold .... molasses ... were more than sufficient to ensure that I wouldn't recommend this film to anyone.
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Summary: Worse than the first.
Review: Just when you thought Tom Cruise might make a decent movie after the "Eyes Wide Shut" debacle. Well, it didn't happen. If your into guns, guns, guns, and more guns and unrealistic disguises, then this movie might be good enough for you. This movie has the age old plot of the bad guy wants lots of $$ and destroy the world in the process. The only cool part of the movie has to deal with the motorcycle chase, in which are totally impossible to do some of these tricks. Personally this movie is not worth the cost to make the actual dvd.
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Summary: Mission Impossible: 2
Review: Tom Cruise was absolutely astonishing in this performance.This action packed joy ride will have you at the end of your seat and leaving the theater quenching for more action.John Woo's directing is absolutely riveting catching every punch and kick with grace. A must see.
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Summary: Trash for the Masses
Review: How did I hate thee, let me count the ways. 1. For the slo-mo which accompanied Cruise during every single action sequence. 2. For the dove. Enough already. 3. For the complete lack of plot. 4. For an obnoxiously overused "It's a mask!" thing. 5. For the mundane villian. THANK GOD this moron couldn't do X-men. 6. For the wasted talent which was Ving Rhames, Anthony Hopkins and Thandie Newton. 7. Did I mention Cruise in slo-mo? 8. For the $18.00 I spent going to see this garbage. 9. For the bullet-festivals. I think people forget that one of the things that made the original Mission Impossible so effective was throughout that entire film, ONE single bullet is fired. One. It had a brain. 10. And lastly, for the fact that John Woo seems to have forgotten that his trademarks been so ripped-off by other hacks at this point, he forgot to innovate and simply let the cameras film Cruise in all his slo-mo glory. It was like Baywatch-Sydney. I'll put it this way: The theater I saw this trash in was laughing during the action sequences and "tender moments". A joke of film.
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Summary: Mission Impossible 2
Review: M I : 2 This summer offering is just what the doctor ordered. Based on the hit 60's tv series (remade in the 80's ) , and a sequel of sorts to the 1996 blockbuster. I will be the first to admit that the 1996 film isn't the better of the two. That film I thought was too silly to be seriously , but the stunts and acting as well as Brian De Palma's direction was great. But come on would Jim Phelps have really betrayed the team? The newest installment in what is likely to become a film franchise is directed by action master John Woo ("Face Off", "Broken Arrow", "Hard Target") , and features a silly plot that mainly serves as the reason for all of the action. Ethan Hunt (a suave Tom Cruise) is whisked away from his vacation in the mountains by his new boss (Anthony Hopkins in an uncredited cameo) to assemble a new team. The mission should he choose to accept it is this : Stop a fellow agent gone bad named Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott "Ever After") from getting control of both a Virus and it's anecdote and selling it to the highest bidder. The team Ethan Hunt assembles to assist him consists of three other people. An Australian spy, Luther (Vingh Rames "Entrapment") returning from the original and Nya a sexy thief (Thandie Newton "Besieged"). The movie has lots of wonderful stunts which will please the audience immensely. One thing that I found amusing is how many times masks are used in a scene in which suddenly someone turns out to be another cast member. It is as if they have an unlimited supply of them. Another problem is the silly story which could have been better. Oh well beggars can't be choosy. Overall this Mission is successful just don't expect a 5 star film. Review : ***1/2 out of five
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Summary: As bad as bad can be
Review: Oh dear. There are so many things wrong with this film, I'm having trouble beginning. Best to examine the origins of the plot, I suppose. Here we have an obvious remake of Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious". However, while the great Al was a master of suspense, John Woo, for all his charms as a director, surpasses suspenseful dialogue and slow panning camera shots and arrives at pure boredom. This movie drags so badly you'd think it was carry two tons of bricks up a steep hill. Then the supposed love story. I think it was intended to be between the Tom Cruise and Thandie Newton characters. Hmmm. Really, I suspect the true love story was between Tom Cruise and Tom Cruise. What, as producer did he get to say Hey guys, for this film I'm going to sport a terrible haircut and have 81 million close-ups of me looking "intense"? Puh-lease. The worst of it had to be in the beginning, when he depicted Ethan Hunt performing a self-crucifixion while rock climbing. Okay, he's supposed to be saintly, we get it already! And the action sequences. The movie definitely had it's share of cool shots, but they seemed so overdone. John Woo's brilliance in this genre is so strong it doesn't need such a high degree of digital touch-ups. Finally, why bother to pay such brilliant actors as Anthony Hopkins and Ving Rhames if you're only going to hide them behind lame dialogue and uninteresting scenes? I suppose there is merit in this film for it's advertising scheme. Here's a franchise that is bound to attract a loyal following despite the poor quality of the product. Just don't let the slickness of the posters or the catchiness of the Limp Bizkit song fool you, this isn't a good film.
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Summary: Can't Get Any Better With Action Movies
Review: I'll start out by saying that I've never been let down by a Tom Cruise movie, they are all excellent films (even Eyes Wide Shut), and MI:2 is by far the best of the action films that both John Woo and Tom Cruise have done separately, and together (so far). Just go buy this movie, crank up the DVD player and enjoy the best movie of 2000.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: This film is great. It gave brillant special effects and without John Woo's new taste of film making we would never have experienced this. The only downside to this film was the music, it was in all the wrong places and thats where I believe it lost a star. If you have not seen it, SEE IT Enjoy!
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