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Summary: Strongly Recommended for Dir's Cut Anamorphic Spec. Edtn.
Review: After I saw the Hong Kong premiere of M:I-2, my first idea is I must buy the DVD. The film is huge, great and excellent. Most of credit should be given to John Woo (the most talented action director). However, I will be more delighted to see Paramount Pictures to release the director's cut special collector edition with Anamorphic Widescreen. Because many of us have the same idea that the theater released version is not the full-length version of John. At the scene of gun war in the Virus Lab, I saw that some of the shoots were duplicated to use and editing is not really satisfied. If Paramount could follow the pattern of SLEEPY HOLLOW DVD, it would be great news to us. I strongly recommend the inclusion of the Behind the Scene features (recently put in the official M:I site), Director & Cast commentary and the Anamorphic Dolby Digital 5.1 version of teaser and full theater trailers. The trailer of M:I 1 in DVD is really bad.
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Summary: Stunning
Review: This is so far my top movie of 2000{Scream 3 is second.} It has it all plot, great acting{Tom's best role since jerry maguire}and stunning chaise scenes. Thanie newton is greaT as Tom's parner/lover. This is 20* better then the first mission impossible. John Woo has created one of summer 2000's blockbuster. i highly recommand this movie.M.I.2: A
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Summary: The Bell Tolls For Tom
Review: I just went and saw the film and I really thought it was a waste of money. Unbelievable stunts coupled with "Days of Our Lives" style dialogue and slow motion scenes of Nyah that looked like cologne advertisements (there were many) prove to be one of the worst sequels I've ever seen. This film has NOTHING on the first installment. Sure, John Woo has made some good movies, but they were Chinese not English. With the exception of 'Face/Off' and 'Broken Arrow' (which were ok) all of his other films in the English language really suck (eg. 'Blackjack', 'First Strike', 'Hard Target'). Too much money invested in action sequences that are too unbelievable, predictable, and drawn-out, and not enough concentration on good dialogue really stabs the film in the heart. Why this time 'round is Ving Rhames portrayed as Tom's sidekick/stooge? He deserves more than this. I feel sorry for Tom Cruise (especially since he believes he really chooses his roles carefully) and the absolute charring he'll receive from critics. He's a great actor with a lot of good films under his belt. The part where he falls from the helicopter through the building and manages to stay perfectly rigid (most people would have broken their back) as he hits the anchors just above the floor, and then cuts that 4 inch glass disc out of the floor and removes it with minimal effort is just laughable. Too many scenes like this. I really felt embarassed as I watched it. Anyway I suppose most sequels are hard to make, especially when compared to the first film. MI had such a great cast and and Brian DePalma's expert direction, and there was more to the plot than just removing fake masks all the time. Oh yeah, they also make Australians sound like inbreeds with the way they talk - I'm not sure if Woo wanted emphasis on an Aussie accent, but we don't all sound like this, and we don't say 'mate' after every word. One star for Marsellus!
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Summary: fairly good movie
Review: in mission:impossible, it was the thinking, the suspence that made it such a great movie. and that the movie was 100% real time, 100 % realistic.(other than the end helicopter scene in the tunnel, we all realize that) But this movie, is entirely opposite. No thought at all is necessary, the plot is so simple. the action is just great, but along with the rating of "great action" in an action movies also must be followed by the term "unrealistic." No "great" action movie can be realistic, it's unheard of. This movie is a disgrace to the first, considering the complexity and realism of the first. it seems like they've just completely gone against all the things that made up the first one that made it great to turn it into more of a bond movie: Women, action is all that makes up the plot. I have to say, i love bond, but does mission impossible really need the sex? and the girl? it sure didn't in the first. i LOVE bond movies, and this movie should have been one. if only the makers stuck to the excellent plot of the first. but, as you can see i DID give this movie four stars, because i do love "great" action. i loved it. but, because they named it "mission: impossible 2", it disappointed me. i still haven't seen "the world is not enough" (which by the way, describes bond himself in his relation to the world), and am anticipated to see it. if they do make a third, i sure hope that they correct these mistakes. and if they don't, they shouldn't name it mission impossible, but rather "bond 20"
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Summary: What a waste of talent.......
Review: I'm a huge Woo fan (Face/Off being the best action flick since Die Hard) and walked away fom MI2 extremely disappionted. This flick was Mission: Impossible in name only. I do have to say that when the action does arrive (after 90 minutes of boredom) it is up to Woo standards but by that point you just dont care. The villians are standard, John Polson incredibly annoying (hate to break it to you but no Aussie says "mate" that much!) and Thandie Newton is reduced to nothing more but a damsel in distress. Do yourself a favour and rent Face/Off instead (even Broken Arrow was better than this!)
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Summary: mission 'just too' impossible 2
Review: let's face it, TC's great! the movie & the plot is good. john woo directing is just awesome. but, i think some of the action scenes are just too amazing for a movie like this. the jumping & the rolling while shooting just doesn't fit. they should've just gotten jet li or chow yun fat to play as ethan hunt. anyway, the movie's just basically fun to watch.
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Summary: Action or Love Story? The scoop on Mission Impossible 2
Review: The newly released into theaters Mission Impossible 2 is a tug-of-war between a new summer love story and a suspenseful action movie. M:I-2 shows a "new" generation mission impossible trailing off of the first big picture "Mission Impossible". This movie definitely shows "edge of your seat" action but when Ethan Hunt played by Tom Cruise falls for Nyah Nordoff-Hall played by the ever so beautiful Thandie Newton it almost gets both of them killed not to mention literally the rest of the world. I definitely think that this is by far the movie of the summer 2000. It has my vote at the Oscars.
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Summary: hard boiled part 2
Review: john woo is back and he is better than ever in mission impossible 2, a move that is bearly under the pg 13 rating and is hard to tell. John woo used all of his teqnuiqes to pure masterpiece. Slow mo gunfights, 2 gun shootouts, fast clip redloading, wow, typical, powerful, mulitlayered movie from the action master,seeing it done from tom cruise is also great seeing good acting as well as action so its not an ala hard target. John woo has outdone him self and the un suprising 70+ million take so far should be reason enough for this blockbuster
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Summary: Mission Impossible 2
Review: The movie was excellent, you could see John Woo's influence through out the picture with the pigeons and the waves during the final action scenes. What lost the fifth star for me was that this movie came across more as a typical action movie than a spy movie. The style was a drastic change from the first mission impossible and there was a clear cut "bad guy" as well as a typical happy ending. By the end I was hoping for some kind of twist but was dissappointed. This is still a good movie and I recommend it to action fans out there
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Summary: A Hyperactive Cinematic Cocktail That Diappoints on Acting
Review: In Mission Impossible 2, Ethan Hunt returns in the sequal to Brain DePalma's popular action film Mission Impossible. Directed by the very brillant John Woo (Hard Boiled, The Killer, and Face/Off) this exploively charged new action extravaganza issues in the start of the 2000 summer movie season with a tremendous bang of dumbfounding action and loud heavy metal rock. Starring Tom Cruise (Ethan Hunt), Anthony Hopkins (Swanback), Ving Rhames (Luther Stickell), and Thandie Newton (Nyah Nordoff-Hall), Mission Impossible 2 brings a whole new meaning to the phrase breathlessly confused. Filled to the brim with impressive action sequences, tightly wound editing, and a photographic exuberence found in almost every John Woo film, Impossible makes it very inconvenient for the viewer to remove their eyes away from the screen when any of the film's pyrotechnics, motorcycles chases or fight scenes occur. Though beginning with a startling plot twist akin in style and presentation to the openings of Bond films in the 1960's, the film's exicitng esponiage gets downplayed by a weakly developed romantic sub-plot. Unforunately this conventional and predictably bland love story leaves far too many lackluster sections inbetween the chases and confrontations. With a recycled spy love triangle side-story taken directly from an old Ingrid Bergmen/Cary Grant film (a.k.a Alfred Hitchcock's 1948 Notorious), Impossible's love story feels more like oudated movie of the week material than the moving romance that Woo and Cruise had probably intended. Beyond the usually impressive Woo action set pieces and amazing action pacing, the film lulls into a rather contrvied spy story that has relatively little to offer other than the glorified formula of one man going against a horde of terrorists to save the world as we know it. MI2 is definatly a descent action film that entertains with its locales, stars, and high budget. MI2 just can not rise it's stories, characters, and plot to the same exalted level as it's special effects and cinematography. M12 is prime victim of Hollywood's drought of good screenplays and Tinsel Town's addiction to popular movie trends.
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