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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097360704549
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Running Time: 123 minutes
Sales Rank: 9233
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: May 22, 1996
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Editorial Review:
Description:
The world's greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year, M:I-2. Top action director John Woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they'll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in.
Amazon.com:
Visually stunning, and a likely must for John Woo aficionados, thesecond Mission: Impossible outing from megastar TomCruise suffers from an inconsistent tone and tired plot devices--not onlyrecycled from other films, but repeated throughout the film. Despite remarkablecinematography and awe-inspiring,trademark Woo photography, the movie offers a tepid story from legendary screenwriter-director RobertTowne (Chinatown, Without Limits) and a host of other writers, most uncredited.
It is, regrettably, as forgettable as the first big-budget, big box-office MI in 1996, and it's clear (as Towneconfirms) that the plot was developed around Woo- and Cruise-written action sequences. The film combinesequal elements of romance and action, and is best when it features the stunning allure of Thandie Newtonas Nyah, a master thief recruited by the sinewy charms of Ethan Hunt (a fit Cruise). Deeply in love after apassionate night, the couple must then combat MI nemesis (and Nyah's former lover) Sean Ambrose(Ever After's Dougray Scott). Ambrose holds hostage a virus and its cure, and offers them to thehighest bidder.
Woo's famed mythic filmmaking is far from subtle, with heroic Hunt frequently slow-motion walking through fire, smoke, or other similar devices,replete with a white dove among pigeons to signal hispresence. The emphasis on romance is an attempt to develop character and a more human side tosuperspy Hunt, but still the dreary story proves a distraction from the exciting action sequences. JohnPolson (as an MI team member) is an Aussie talent to keep an eye on. --N.F. Mendoza
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Tom and John Get It On (does that sound wrong?)
I just got this disc after watching it years ago in its worldwide premiere.I wanted to see what I liked about it and the film holds up remarkably well.
MI-2 features the creative and extravagant pairing of Tom Cruise and John Woo (more explosions! more cars!). Their signature presence is evident in every shot.Robert Towne's script, though no doubt rewritten, is actually tight with strong dialogue and a solid plot.In short, the film works well on all fronts.It doesn't force ... Read More
Rating: - A letdown after the hype
Let me say, the trailer was good. Wetted my appetite for the real deal...Sorry to say that the film was cliche, the fight scenes could have been improved (should have hired Woo Ping Yuen as the martial arts director), the editing was not sharp enough to backup the action. Some of the scenes like on the bike was so unrealistic that the Hong Kong audience found it unrealistic (after being brought up on unrealistic martial arts film in HK, I would have thought we could have accepted this)...The ... Read More
Rating:  - A walk in a very pretty park
John Woo's MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 2 is a sight for the eyes and a joy for the ears.Unfortunately, that's really about it.Easily the weakest of Tom Cruise's M:I series, M:I2 is also the most non-canon of the three in terms of character writing and design.While the first and third films in the series featured a gritty style with just enough action to get the pulse running, M:I2 is all action.Outrageous action.Slow-motion gun battles, dueling motorcycles, and explosions are the name of the game ... Read More
Rating:  - It's just an action movie
I think this movie was rated bad by people because it was so different from the first one. I went to watch this movie thinking it was going to be long, kinda drab but still in its own way interesting like the first. But instead it added a few things that the first one could have used like ACTION. I think this movie was a good combination of a modern action movie well balanced with
technical expertise and suspense. This movie had a sexy feel that flowed smoothly throughout the movie that just ... Read More
Rating: - MI2: Revisited
Yeah, I know. It's so easy to 'dis this flick. And hey, the first time I saw it, I was not a huge fan either. However, I happened to catch this movie again the other day.
Now, I am of the opinion that a movie's first and foremost job is to entertain -- not to enlighten, not to inform, not to make us feel more intellectual because we have plowed the shadowy depths of a film's varied and multi-layered philisophical underpinnings. If a movie fails to entertain, then it has failed utterly. I don't ... Read More
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