Rotten
Woo lays on his own particular high-octane stylishness so thick the results edge perilously toward self-parody.
Dennis Harvey, Variety
Mission: Impossible II
Expect the impossible again.
2000 · 2h 3m · PG-13
Action, Adventure, Thriller
Directed by
John Woo
Overview
With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.
Director and cast
- John Woo Director
- Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
- Dougray Scott as Sean Ambrose
- Thandiwe Newton as Nyah Nordoff-Hall
- Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
- Richard Roxburgh as Hugh Stamp
- John Polson as Billy Baird
- Brendan Gleeson as John C. McCloy
- Rade Šerbedžija as Dr. Nekhorvich
- William Mapother Cast
- Dominic Purcell Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
Fresh
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.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Rotten
Woo's hysterically hyper visuals and boytoy gimmickry can't camouflage the emptiness of the enterprise.
Derek Adams, Time Out
Rotten
Despite Cruise's attempts here to be Byronic, there's something strenuous about his soulfulness; he turns everything, even repose, into calisthenics.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Fresh
It's fun. It's laughable. It has moments of excitement, moments of sheer idiocy and moments of sheer idiotic excitement.
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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