Review of Mission: Impossible II (2000) by Justin P — 01 Aug 2015

Jesus Christ, this movie is soooo bad!! At least the first part had a quite interesting plotline but here... I lost interest after the titles to be honest. I also think after 4 years Tom Cruise somehow forgot how to be Ethan Hunt and somehow became this "good-guy-American-spy" who only kills out of self-defence and HONESTLY falls in love with the first thief - the worst one on the planet - he encounters.

If you like shampoo commercials and slow motion sequences you will love this movie because 80% of the film is just about that - watching everybody's hair fly in the wind in extra slow motion. The ending is devastatingly long and sooo - pardon the pun - IMPOSSIBLE that all you can do is laugh until you have tears in your eyes. They couldn't get rid of the rubber faces and based the whole solution on that "great idea"... so pathetic.

The sidekicks managed to degrade themselves to the worst spies the world has ever seen (seriously, "the only man alive who ever hacked NATO Ghost Com" can't establish radio connection because of a FUCKING GENERATOR!??) stumbling through the "epic" TWO-HOUR-runtime, where the director realised that nothing happened for 90 minutes let's force some extra action scenes in the last 20 minutes. I'll NEVER watch a John Woo film again... Oh God, I hope the third is better...