Mission: Impossible Collection

Tom Cruise

Dougray Scott

Thandiwe Newton

Ving Rhames

Richard Roxburgh

John Polson

Brendan Gleeson

Rade Šerbedžija

William Mapother

Dominic Purcell

Mathew Wilkinson

Nicholas Bell

Cristina Brogeras

Kee Chan

Kim Fleming

Alan Lovell

Dan Luxton

Christian Manon

Karl McMillan

Lester Morris

Kelly Ons

Nicholas Papademetriou

Brett Partridge

Candice Partridge

Natalie Reis

Daniel Roberts

Adriana Rodríguez

Sandra Rodríguez

Nada Rogic

Antonio Vargas

Anthony Hopkins

Alison Araya

Rebecca Barratt

Douglas Bunn

Caine

Fred Chen

Mark Connolly

Ryder Davis

Alan Hennessy

Patrick Marber

William Morts

Tory Mussett

Paul Roget

Shant Sarkissian

Darren Dupree Washington

Robert McCann

Steven Kemper

R. Bruce Steinheimer

Hans Zimmer

Ray Anthony

Gregory Apps

Paula Wagner

Kevin Kavanaugh

Richard Ratliff

Robert Towne

John Woo

Jeffrey L. Kimball

Nathan Crowley

Lauri Gaffin

Bryan Bowen

Sarah Halley Finn

Kerrie Brown

Brian Smrz

Thomas E. Sanders

Michelle McGahey

Lizzy Gardiner

Paul Pattison

Christian Wagner

Deborah Aquila

Jasmine Yuen Carrucan

Randi Feldman

Judy Whitehead

Michael Anthony Jackson

Robert Consing

Lalo Schifrin

Mark Sexton

Trevor Goring

Bruce Geller

Richard K. Buoen

Jane Johnston

Dane Farwell

Danny Wynands

Terence Chang

Brannon Braga

Ronald D. Moore

Michael Doven

Paul Hitchcock

Corey Michael Eubanks

Marc Streitenfeld

Kristin Voumard

Ken Crouch

Zigmund Gron

William H. Burton Sr.

Jeff Brown

Phil Shearer

Belinda Villani

Colette Birrell

Daniel T. Dorrance

Clive Memmott

Timothy Everest

Gregory Lundsgaard

Craig Heath

Fiona Searson

Brad Bemis

Michael Crowe

Mel Kangleon

Ehren Koepf

Jamie Gardner

Sheryl Pilkinton

Mitchell J. Coughlin

Jake Kennedy

Lisa Javelin

Jasin Boland

Glen W. Johnson

Klaus Badelt

Sam M. Cobb

Steven Koller

Colin Chase

Craig Fison

Daniel Mellitz

John Copeman

Thomas Betts

Eric Todd

Kevin De La Noy

Susan Towner

Victoria Mielewska

Steve Brodsky

John Lee

Kerry Dean Williams

Ken Nishino

Greg Allen

Phil Pastuhov

Brett Cooper

Dave Weston

Brian Nailing

Michael Kehoe

Marc Spicer

Gideon Marshall

Bruce Callahan

Marque Owen

David Bartholomew

Barrie Hemsley

John Rogers

Barbara Fiorentino

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Mission: Impossible II

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Munich Film Partners & Company (MFP) MI 2 Productions

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Dr Nostromo

69/100

Ethan Hunt must stop a deadly new virus from falling into the wrong hands. The directing styles from Brian De Palma (1st film) to John Woo is pretty stark making this far less an M:I movie and far more a James Bond action flick. Not a lot of time is spent on the depth of the characters focusing almost exclusively on Ethan and the villain and the romantic scenes just felt awkward. But the film is loaded with Woo's trademark car & motorcycle chases and stunts, shootouts galore and non-stop, superbly choreographed fights making it all a very fun popcorn matinee. -- DrNostromo.com

And here is where I gave up on the series.  I liked the first one, it was 3 Days of the Condor with action, not as brilliant acting, not as talented a cast, but action packed fun.

And then suddenly Tom has long hair and it's has no plot, there are a lot of pigeons all the time, the action looks corny and.... I checked out, I really did.  Even the memory cards, they are spies that do action and they aren't using Compact Flash Cards?

It made no sense, it was imagery over plot.  It stank.

But they made a lot more, and I might have watched the Ghost Recall or whatever it was called on, but don't really remember paying attention to it.  This one took me out of the franchise.

CinemaSerf

"Ambrose" (Dougray Scott) is a disavowed IMF agent with a grudge. He is determined to procure and release a deadly hybrid "chimera" virus onto the streets of Sydney so he can push up the share price of the company that wins his auction to acquire it; and that can also manufacture the antidote "Bellerophon". It falls to "Ethan" (Tom Cruise) and his inventive gang of regulars to come up with a way to thwart this plot. To that end, he recruits the brassy thief "Nyah" (Thandiwe Newton) who gets to play a real love interest with "Ethan" whilst feigning one with "Ambrose" to get close to him and learn his plans. On the face of it, this is an ideal screenplay for this franchise, a sort of "James Bond" theme with plenty of location cinematography, action scenes and the odd gadget. Sadly, though, Scott is just not very menacing as the baddie and the story is really under-developed. The characters appear to be almost grinning their way through the unremarkable dialogue, and John Woo creates then recreates the action scenes as if it were just some sort of cartoon feature. The standard of the production is high, the staging of those action scenes is strong and well photographed, but the story just doesn't ever really get into gear and at over two hours, it's a pretty weak and insipid outing for just about everyone. Not a patch on the first film.

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.

Gimly

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._

Dark Jedi

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.

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