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Mixed or average reviews- based on 78 Ratings

  • Starring: Tom Cruise
  • Summary: Ethan Hunt (Cruise) leads his IMF team to capture and destroy a German-manufactured virus before it falls in the wrong, potentially deadly hands.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 33
  2. Negative: 3 out of 33
  1. It's eye candy that detonates.
  2. 80
    Every car chase, every plane crash, every potential drop off a cliff is a masterpiece of grace and surprise.
  3. 60
    It's actually sharper, less reverential and generally better than "Misson: Impossible."
  4. 30
    A vaguely absurd epidemiological thriller filled with elaborately superfluous setups and shamelessly stale James Bond riffs.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 21
  2. Negative: 2 out of 21
  1. 10
    This is the best Mission Impossible, John Woo made a good job with this film. The action is as I lwant the action to be. Enjoyable, funny and extreme. M:I-2 rules! Expand
  2. The Weakest in a great series but entertaining after you realize your watching John Woo make a James Bond inspired cartoon. It is nowhere near as sophisticated at the 1st or as involving as the 3rd or as funny as the fourth but it is still a very well made B movie. John Woo is a pretentious but unique action film maker, he indulges in slow motion but it's interesting how he edits action scenes, the problems with the film is that the script is under mediocre with a bad performance from the villan. By the way Ghost Protocol (the 4th) has some of the best action scenes ever made (that story has a few problems also though) Expand
  3. Sadly, John Woo's poor direction on "Mission Impossible 2" even makes the action crappy.
  4. I think my high hopes were shattered for this film, because I felt disappointed that it did not live up to the previous film's well-crafted plot and intertwining cool action sequences. This I felt, lacked the former and added more of the latter. The beginning was strong, but as it neared the end it went downhill, and the only thing that stopped this from hitting rock bottom was Tom Cruise's ability to pull off cool action stunts - specifically the fight between him and Ambrose added a little more drama, although any other fighting was purely for showing. Thandie Newton failed to add anything to the film, merely just a manipulative prop. In the end, the only thing that saved the film was Tom Cruise himself, but eventually it just ended up being a fun-of-the-flair cheesy mega action flick. My favourite part, though, was in the pharmaceutical lab. Expand

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