Rent Mission Impossible 2 (2000)
3.0 of 5 from 205 ratings
1h 58min
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- Synopsis:
- How do you prevent terrorists from unleashing mayhem on the entire world? You don't. This is a job for IMF agent Ethan Hunt. 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.
- Actors:
- Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleeson, Rade Serbedzija, William Mapother, Dominic Purcell, Mathew Wilkinson, Nicholas Bell, Cristina Brogeras, Kee Chan, Kim Fleming, Alan Lovell, Dan Luxton, Christian Manon, Karl McMillan, Lester Morris
- Directors:
- John Woo
- Producers:
- Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner
- Writers:
- Bruce Geller, Ronald D. Moore
- Aka:
- Mission: Impossible II
- Studio:
- Paramount
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Thrillers
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- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 03/11/2008
- Run Time:
- 123 minutes
- Languages:
- English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- English, English Hard of Hearing, French, German
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- Bonus:
- Commentary by director John Woo
- Behind the mission
- Mission: Incredible
- Impossible shots
- I disappear – Metallica
- Alternate title sequence
- Excellence in film: Cruise
- Generation: Cruise
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 02/07/2018
- Run Time:
- 124 minutes
- Languages:
- Brazilian Portuguese Dolby Digital 2.0, Castilian Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, English Dolby TrueHD 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, German Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian Dolby Digital 5.1, Latin American Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1
- Subtitles:
- Brazilian, Castillian, Danish, Dutch, English, English Hard of Hearing, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 2
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 2.35:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
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Reviews (2) of Mission Impossible 2
A lot to live up to - Mission Impossible 2 review by JD
The problem with a series that runs to a certain formula is that it is bound to invite comparison. I think that it is not the best of the MIs. That honour goes to ghost protocol which is close to perfect. MI2 has much more of a romantic interest and employs many more silicone masks than the others. Possibly a few times too often. It is never clear why sticking a semiconductor on your neck changes your voice to match another person's voice. The motorbike chase is not well shot and feels unconvincing. Having said that the series ranks as one of the best in the genre of action / spy / adventure, none of them are poor.
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Full On Action Sequel - Mission Impossible 2 review by GI
In the hands of action director John Woo this belated sequel is a much more hi-octane shooting and chasing film and much of the espionage roots that the first film used are lost. The familiar use of masks (from the TV series and used in the first film) are key to the plot here but this is really Woo's attempt at getting as close to a James Bond film as he possibly can and there are many similarities to the Pierce Brosnan series. Somehow this is often cited as the least favourite in the MI franchise by many and I can see why. Woo's over stylised use of slow motion in the fight and action scenes is just too much and there is much too much gung-ho shoot 'em up stuff when Mission Impossible is supposed to be about covert espionage and surprise plot twists. Here Tom Cruise is still a covert agent working for the IMF branch of the CIA. He is given a mission to find a lethal virus that has been manufactured along with an antidote. It's to be found in Australia and a psycho former IMF agent Sean (Dougray Scott) is also after it. Cruise recruits Sean's former lover Nyah (Thandie Newton) to help and soon a very unprofessional relationship begins. So we have a romance chucked in for good measure. Ving Rhames returns as the computer wizard and Anthony Hopkins has a great cameo. As action thrillers go this is actually very entertaining and it's worth re-evaluating if you've not seen it in awhile. It's definitely not as good as other films in this series but equally it's not as bad as you might remember.
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