Mission: Impossible II Review

Mission: Impossible II


Release Date: 1st June 2000 - Australia


Production Companies
Paramount Pictures (presents)
Cruise/Wagner Productions
Munich Film Partners
& Company (MIFP)
MI2 Productions

Distribution

Paramount Pictures Australia

Genre: Action

Rating: M

Runtime: 123 minutes


Budget: $125,000,000

Box Office Gross: $546,388,105

(Worldwide)

Plot Summary

Top action director John

Woo brings his own brand

of excitement to the mission

that finds Ethan Hunt

partnering up with the

beautiful Nyah Hall to stop

the renegade agent Sean

Ambrose 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.


Cast

Tom Cruise - Ethan Hunt

Dougray Scott - Sean Ambrose
Thandie Newton - Nyah Nordoff-Hall
Ving Rhames - Luther Strickell

Richard Roxburgh - Hugh Stamp

John Polson - Billy Baird

Brendan Gleeson - John C. McCloy

Anthony Hopkins - Mission
Commander Swanbeck (Uncredited)

Rade Serbedzija - Dr. Nekhorvich
William Mapother - Wallis
Dominic Purcell - Ulrich
Matthew Wilkinson - Michael
Kim Fleming - Larabee
Christian Manon - Dr. Gradsky

Crew

Director - John Woo

Based on TV Series: Mission

Impossible - Bruce Geller

Story - Ronald D. Moore &

Brannon Braga

Screenplay - Robert Towne
Executive Producers - Terence Chang & Paul Hitchcock

Producers - Tom Cruise & Paula Wagner

Production Designer - Thomas E. Saunders
Supervising Art Director - Daniel T. Dorrance
Art Directors - Nathan Crowley,
Kevin Kavanaugh & Michelle McGahey
Set Decorators - Kerrie Brown &
Lauri Giffin
Costume Designers - Lizzy Gardiner &
Timothy Everest (Uncredited)

Director of Photography - Jeffrey L. Kimball
Second Unit Director - William H. Burton Jr.

Second Unit Director (Uncredited)/Stunt Coordinator -
Brian Smrz
Special Effect Shop Supervisor - Brian Cox
Special Effects Supervisor: USA - David P. Kelsey

Visual Effects Supervisors - Richard Yuricich and Ralph Maiers
Visual Effects Supervisor: Matte World Digital - Craig Barron
Visual Effects Supervisor: PDI - Henry LaBounta
Visual Effects Producer - Alison O'Brien
Model Supervisor - David B. Sharp
CG Supervisor - John 'D.J.' Des Jardin
Digital Effects Supervisor - Janek Sirrs

Film Editors - Steven Kemper

& Christian Wagner

Music - Hans Zimmer

Review

'MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE II' does package its action scenes and gadgets, but it's not as incredible as 'Ghost Protocol', neither deceptive as its predecessor (click here). This picture is very typical of John Woo's style of directing. Its full of action, action and more action to the point where by the end of the film, you feel it was a great movie but perhaps lacking comedy and romance to balance some of the ongoing action. It's funny that I didn't even know that Anthony Hopkins was on the movie. One asset for this film is that leading actor Tom Cruise actually performed some of his own stunts which is not always the case.

This film is nowhere near as good as the fourth film or even the first, but it's still enjoyable for those who watched the M:I movie series. Cruise was definitely in his prime when he made this film.

Star rating: (4/5) Good Movie

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