Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)

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Woo lays on his own particular high-octane stylishness so thick the results edge perilously toward self-parody.

March 27, 2009 Full Review | Comment (1)

Dennis Harvey

Variety

Top Critic

For all my profound reservations about the whole project, I wound up liking it more, or, at least disliking it less, than I had anticipated. Thandie Newton is the biggest reason.

April 27, 2007 Full Review

Andrew Sarris

New York Observer

Top Critic

Woo's hysterically hyper visuals and boytoy gimmickry can't camouflage the emptiness of the enterprise.

February 9, 2006 Full Review

Derek Adams

Time Out

Top Critic

Despite Cruise's attempts here to be Byronic, there's something strenuous about his soulfulness; he turns everything, even repose, into calisthenics.

January 16, 2003 Full Review

Peter Rainer

New York Magazine

Top Critic

It's fun. It's laughable. It has moments of excitement, moments of sheer idiocy and moments of sheer idiotic excitement.

June 18, 2002 Full Review

Mick LaSalle

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

A strained sequel to a feature rip-off of an old television show with a stealable theme song. On screen and off, no one's getting marks for originality here.

March 22, 2002 Full Review

Rick Groen

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

Good thrill ride of a movie for teens and older.

December 26, 2010 Full Review

Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

This will go down on my list as the better sequels.

April 29, 2009 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

Here, Woo just seems to fall back on slow-mo whenever he gets bored, which apparently is often.

July 18, 2008 Full Review

Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

With all this having been done before, making MI2 interesting or suspenseful truly is an impossible mission.

July 14, 2007 Full Review

Joe Lozito

Big Picture Big Sound

M:I-2 isn't as original or inventive as Woo's Hong Kong films (or even his first big stateside blockbuster, Face/Off), but it certainly entertains.

September 1, 2006

Betsy Bozdech

Reel.com

It doesn't matter how many extra months the director spends creating impressive action scenes. If the audience is not emotionally invested in the fate of the heroes, no amount of explosions will make them care.

December 6, 2005 Full Review | Comment (1)

Ron Wells

Film Threat

The makers don't go out of their way to make this original in any way, but the quality comes through.

April 9, 2005 Full Review

Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

This sequel seems afraid of confusing people, so much so that it dumbs down the plot to an insulting level.

December 6, 2004 | Comment (1)

Jeffrey Overstreet

Looking Closer

A more coherent and romantic script.

June 26, 2004 Full Review

Judith Egerton

Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY)

Rather than a groundbreaking piece of new gadgetry, this thriller is like an old, well-oiled machine.

May 22, 2003 Full Review

Eugene Novikov

Film Blather

Woo outwits, outgadgets, outstunts and outdirects the original with one hand tied behind his back.

May 20, 2003

Susan Tavernetti

Palo Alto Weekly

• 1. Dr. Nekhorvich: Every search for a hero must begin with something that every hero requires. A villain.
  – Submitted by Dann M (43 days ago)
• 1. Luther Stickwell: That punk put a hole in my Versace!
  – Submitted by Michael F (9 months ago)
• 1. Boss: You mean its going to be difficult.
  2. Ethan Hunt: Very.
  3. Boss: Well, Mr. Hunt, this is not Mission: Difficult, its Mission: Impossible. Difficult should be a walk in the park for you.
  – Submitted by Amy Y (11 months ago)
• 1. Ethan Hunt: You're sorry, I'm sorry.
  – Submitted by Saloni D (15 months ago)
• 1. Ethan Hunt: I'll let you know where I'm going.
  2. Boss: Don't have to do that. It wouldn't be a vacation if you did.
  – Submitted by Zbigniew Z (17 months ago)
• 1. Sean Ambrose: This is what's known as getting your gun off.
  – Submitted by Aaron L (19 months ago)

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