Mission: Impossible II

It's eye candy that detonates.

The real deity of the movie is director Woo, who takes complete command of the latest technology -- hyperspeed editing, breathtaking cinematography, 10-out-of-10 stunt work -- to create brilliant action sequences.

It is ultimately the film's reliance on this thumping action assault that keeps it from true summer-movie greatness.

Suggests that Cruise the actor may have outgrown this kind of stuff.

It's actually sharper, less reverential and generally better than "Misson: Impossible."

Once the basic conflict is established, the story plods along, alternating between preposterous -- in a bad way -- speeches and even more preposterous -- but in a good way -- shootouts and slugfests.

Mostly, you get a pain in the head from the assault on your senses and déjà vu as thick as heartburn after an anchovy pizza.

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.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Like everyone else, I too think this is by far the worst Missions: Impossible film. The third installment is really when this series kicks off in amazing ways, and that is where I would recommend starting this franchise if you are wanting to watch them and haven't yet. The first one is fine to watch, but this one is easily the most skippable one. It is honestly just pretty boring, and I will never forget how laughable the intro climbing scene in this movie is. It is unintentionally corny.

Esse filme é uma tragedia. Mesmo deixando de lado a logica, é muito difícil se divertir com esse projeto. Os personagens não tem a menor profundidade, e fica bem claro que isso é totalmente ignorado ao redor do filme, e o pior é que o mesmo se leva tão serio que passa a acreditar que é inteligente, onde metade das cenas são os personagens fazendo caras persuasivas e pseudo-espertas. Fora que é super previsível, onde pude adivinhar dois plots sem o menor esforço. Fora a conveniência do roteiro para que determinados rumos sejam tomados. Fica bem claro aqui que se esse filme não foca nos diálogos, personagens, historia, ele deve ser bom nas cenas de ação, correto? Quem dera! As coreografias de luta conseguem ser mirabolantes e ao mesmo tempo sem criatividade, com milhares de cortes entre elas que só ajudam a te deixar mais perdido. E o que falar do slowmotion dramático extremamente mal implementado? Aqui o diretor acha o máximo pôr isso em toda cena. E falando em cinematografia, a mesma está mais perdida do que nunca. Dando enfoque em determinados objetos e cenários sem a menor necessidade, subestimando a inteligencia do publico e a própria capacidade de uma fotografia bem feita, e como citei acima: cortar uma cena em pedaços não a deixa melhor. Quanto ao áudio, apesar de amar as OST de Hans Zimmer, não acho que esse rock funcionou bem aqui.

Mission: Impossible II is a delirium that does not work. Plot without sense and convoluted, moments taken from any side, an action that does not work and scenes too exaggerated make this film a nonsense that entertains and little else. Without a doubt, the worst of all (and I still have to see the next ones in the series, but worse than this can not be).