Mission: Impossible II

"Expect the impossible again."

2000 2h 3m EN

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★6.1TMDB · 7,873●59Metacritic★6.1IMDB · 413,413

AdventureActionThriller

Synopsis

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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.

“Expect the impossible again.”

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Cast

Tom Cruise
Ethan Hunt
Dougray Scott
Sean Ambrose
Thandiwe Newton
Nyah Hall
Ving Rhames
Luther Stickell
Richard Roxburgh
Hugh Stamp
John Polson
Billy Baird
Brendan Gleeson
McCloy
Rade Šerbedžija
Dr. Nekhorvich

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: John Woo
Writers: Robert Towne, Michael Anthony Jackson, Robert Consing
Languages: English
Countries: United States of America, Germany

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MONEY

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$125M budget — tentpole studio territory.

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MONEY

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Made its money back 4.4× over at the box office.

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3 / 8

ERA

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26 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: United States of America, Germany.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Mission: Impossible Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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CAST

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285+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by John Woo, shot by Jeffrey L. Kimball. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Hans Zimmer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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The take

John Woo directs. Jeffrey L. Kimball behind the camera. Hans Zimmer scores. Steven Kemper cuts. Made its budget back several times over at the box office. Produced in United States of America, Germany. Dialogue in English.

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1$125M budget — tentpole studio territory.
2Made its money back 4.4× over at the box office.
326 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
4International production across 2 countries: United States of America, Germany.
5Part of the "Mission: Impossible Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
6285+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
7Directed by John Woo, shot by Jeffrey L. Kimball. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
8Original score by Hans Zimmer. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
9Editor Steven Kemper shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
10Tom Cruise and Dougray Scott and Thandiwe Newton carry the top of the cast.
11Marketing tagline: "Expect the impossible again.".
12IMDB entry: tt0120755 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
13Classified under 30 themes, including "dying and death", "mask", "island", "central intelligence agency (cia)".

The technical file

Cinematography: Jeffrey L. Kimball
Original score: Hans Zimmer
Editing: Steven Kemper
Production design: Thomas E. Sanders
Costume design: Lizzy Gardiner
Makeup / hair: Robert McCann
VFX supervisor: Craig Barron
Sound: Anna Behlmer
Stunt coordinator: Brian Smrz
Runtime: 123 min · 2h 3m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $125,000,000
Box office: $546,388,108
Return: 437% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: Mission: Impossible II (2000)
Metacritic: 59/100
IMDB rating: 6.1/10 · 413,413 votes
MPAA: PG-13

Awards

12 wins & 20 nominations total

Part of

Mission: Impossible Collection

Mission: Impossible is a series of a secret agent thriller films based on the popular 1966–73 television series. They chronicle the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) under the leadership of agent Ethan Hunt.

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Dark Jedi2016-01-01
★ 5/10
This is a decent enough mindless action movie with a lot of over the top action but it is not really a Mission Impossible movie. The movie starts of reasonably well being somewhat intelligent with a bit of Mission Impossible feel to it. It is actually almost a bit slow at times. However, for the second half of the movie it really degrades into a classical John Woo, over the top, action feast with all pretense of intelligence and any true Mission Impossible feel gone. John Woo is not the right person to make a Mission Impossible movie. As with the first movie if it would not have been labelled Mission Impossible I would probably have given it a higher rating since it is a decent enough, mostly braindead though, Hollywood action movie. However, I have higher expectations from a movie labelled Mission Impossible. Tom Cruise is quite okay as Ethan Hunt. Dougray Scott is okayish as the bad guy. Sometimes he projects the right big bad and mad bad-guy attitude but sometimes he is just silly and just as over the top as the action scenes. He is supposed to be a mastermind but he comes out as a thug a’ la a not so intelligent drug baron in many scenes. The action scenes? Well, they are classical John Woo material. Fast paced with a lot of stunts and things that go boom. They are also, as expected, hugely over the top and unbelievable. They provide a enjoyable visual experience but, as I wrote above, they are not really what I would expect from a Mission Impossible movie. The romance between Hunt and Nyah is the typical Hollywood, let’s throw in a sexy girl and some superficial attraction, which develops from get lost to I love you in the matter of a few hours of contact, between the lead character and the girl. Meh! I get the impression that the people that have created these movies so far have not really watched a single full season of Mission Impossible.
Gimly2016-08-16
★ 3/10
The first underwhelmed me, but this one straight-up bored me. Again, of course seeing Hunt climb a mountain without a harness is impressive sure. And I even quite liked the idea behind the villain of the piece (though even that angle was woefully underdeveloped). Even setting it in predominantly Australia was enough to grab my attention, and that's saying something cause I'm pretty biased when it comes to that. I hear tell that Mission: Impossible II is the low point in the series, and that at least is encouraging, because if anything afterwards is much worse than this one, I don't know if I'll be able to make it through to Rogue Nation. Final rating:★½: - Boring/disappointing. Avoid if possible.
aardwark692020-04-11
★ 2/10
After quite entertainign Mission Impossible I the second installment turned out ... terrible. As if the screenwriters didn't know how to fill the 2 hrs with action the overuse of heroic slow motion scenes is horrible. You almost might need a barf bag if you can't stand slo-mo every five seconds... for 15 seconds. I am amazed they did decide to push on with more M:I movies after this one, then again, these turned out much much better even if it would be hard to beat that lousy piece of crap of a movie.