Although no masterpiece, Mission: Impossible 2 goes way past the standards of the first film, and does it stylishly. Very watchable stuff.

It was good, but not nearly as good as the original. More action than plot and storyline.

This movie rocks!!! end of story.

I haven't seen the first one yet. However, this one fights against its lacking story with great action and an energetic cast, and it wins for the most part. John Woo sure knows how to deliver action, and Tom Cruise readily jumps into every stunt, carrying the name of Ethan Hunt with unheard of energy. Only the cruel fans would give this film a bad rating

Okay action movie, cliches and all, flows well and is fun because it's basic and energetic.

By the time "Mission Impossible: 2" ended, I had witnessed one brilliant action sequence and at least five really awful ones. (I confess I don't recall why she did it, but Berry injecting herself with the deadly Chimera virus, following an edge-of-your-seat descent into the virus' storage chamber WAS brilliant.) Movies like M-I:2 aren't supposed to be so consumed with plot that they become like the earliest Bond pictures. But it wouldn't hurt to make sure once in a while that when we're watching that car go plummeting to it's doom, we should care enough to hope the Leading Man jumps out in time even though we know he's going to anyway.… Expand

Cruise simply isn't convincing as a dashing spy. He's perpetually Joey in Risky Business and in this overblown vehicle he relies almost entirely on his bright shiny set of smiling teeth. What legs were to Grable, teeth are to Cruise. John Woo directs action with some flair and allows Cruise to imitate Chow Yun Fat's famous two pistoled leaping antics but this is really just a case of everyone cashing in big time once again. At least DePalma in the first installment had a plot strategy; Woo is only a tactician of action. … Expand

Yes, this movie has cliches everywhere. Yes, its plotline was lifted from an Alfred hitchcock movie. Still, this movie is great fun with action aplenty, and enough plot and startling revelations for anybody.

It's up there with "The Perfect Storm" for worst movies of all time. Awful story and not-that-exciting action sequences.

I got so bored, but Tom Cruise wasn't so bad.

The Hollywood milk it dry theme.... There has to be more creative scripts out there to throw money at. I guess the bond theory is in play tho. Average and I watched it. Good to have on when you are doing something else at the same time and want a distraction in the background.

Hands down the best Mission Impossible movie out of the 3 movies made so far. The chemistry between Tom Cruise and Thandie was delish! This is the only movie out of the franchise that I can watch over and over and over again without fail. The car scene, the bike scene the scenes thru out he entire movie keeps me riverted. Tom should have made MI-3 with Thandie and kept it going but I am sure Hollywood had something to do with him changing from a black romantic female lead. I'm just glad he did not go with the wooden Hallie Berry who though beautiful is meh when acting. I would have loved to see MI-4 with Thandie but he's not going that way so hopefully if he continues the franchise he will bring her back on board.… Expand

I can see Tom Cruise and the other producers' logic when they hired John Woo to direct Mission: Impossible II - getting a big-name action director to helm the second installment of a big-name thriller franchise makes complete sense. Unfortunately, what John Woo turned M:I-2 into was an English-language Hong Kong action movie, and not a good one. At times his direction of the action scenes borders on self-parody, and I'm not certain Woo has noticed. We get it John, you like your wire-work, your slow-motion jumping-through-the-air-whilst-shooting, but I think I speak for the vast majority when I say we'd much rather see Chow Yun-fat doing it in Hard Boiled or a Better Tommorrow and looking cool than Mr. Cruise doing it in this knockoff and looking pretty damn silly. On the subject of the pocket-sized actor, in the first film, Cruise's Ethan Hunt was a character you could get behind - despite his **** he was likeable, his motivations understandable, but this time round he's just a smug, self-indulgent douchebag (putting it mildly), and his hair is stupid. I could write a whole page on the hair in this film - with all the slow-motion shots of hair billowing in the wind, it's like a Loreal ad! Concerning the rest of the cast, Thandie Newton is irritating as the love interest, Dougray Scott and Richard Roxburgh make bland villains in comparison to the baddies in the first film, and Brendan Gleeson and Anthony Hopkins should be ashamed by appearing in the film at all, brief though their time on screen is (i swear Hopkins only said yes to have something to do between scenes in Hannibal). Thank goodness for Ving Rhames, who reprises the role of Luther Stickell the effortlessly cool hacker - he's still an incredibly fun character, but just isn't on the screen for long enough. Even after all these gripes, my main problem with M:I-2 is the decision to make a novelty of the first film a major plot device in this film. Yes, I'm talking about the ultra-realistic face masks people use when they need to look a doppelganger of someone else. It's a lazy and unconvincing concept for a plot element, and you always see it coming. Plus it's never explained why people's eyes aren't a different colour. Mission: Impossible II has completely lost the fun factor of the first film. Yes, the action scenes are just as big, if not bigger, and exceptionally competent, but Woo's direction is lazy and with too much tendency to reference the infinitely better films he directed in the 80s and 90s. The performances are lacklustre, the script laughable, and tone extremely uneven. It's not quite the worst action film I've ever seen, but I can find little that's right with the film, and a whole lot that's wrong with it.… Expand

Mission Impossible 2 has flaws, many many flaws but its main problem is John Woo brings his signature stylised action but overdoes it. From the unnecessary twirling during gunfights to his signature doves it’s all a little too over the top. That being said, the film does have a certain charm in that it never tries to be overly complex (something its predecessor does on multiple occasions). It’s an action film and nothing more. It’s entertaining in its action, the chemistry between its team members is decent and it is definitely more light hearted than the first. However despite these positives, there is an obvious failure in casting with the obvious choice being the villain Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) but the worst offender is Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton) who is horribly miscast as she brings as much character to the role as a brick wall. The rest of the cast meshes well together with Richard Roxburgh making a pretty decent underling for Ambrose. Sure its not as good as Mission Impossible or Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol but it is mindless fun. It’s just a shame about the poor casting.… Expand

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

The plot is taken more seriously than the first with tension and thrills on a adventure of suspense and amazingly violent action. I know a lot of you think the first is better, but it's more serious than the first.

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!