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Mission - Impossible II [Blu-ray] | ![Mission - Impossible II [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Kd0VJ%2BgAL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: John Woo
Actors: Brendan Gleeson, Thandie Newton, John Polson, Ving Rhames, Rade Serbedzija
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  467 reviews
Sales Rank: 7614
Format: Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: Blu-ray
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 123 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: PARBR119924
UPC: 097361199245
EAN: 0097361199245
ASIN: B000O59AFW
Theatrical Release Date: 2000
Release Date: June 3, 2008
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/07/2007
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This Mission Self-Destructed In The First Five Seconds April 20, 2008
Sebastian Sanjurjo (Miami FL)
This movie is a perfect example of an over blown, over the top, over budget sequel. When will Hollywood learn that bigger explosions and bigger budget doesn't make a better sequel, that's why most sequels fail to be even loyal to the first. That is exactly what happens here. Director John Woo, best known for his fascinating heroic bloodshed movies (The Killer, a better tomorrow, face/off)tries to brings his wonders to this flick. Unfortunately he fails to bring them in right to this sequel. The problem here is that it lacks the goodies of the first. The main issue is the mood; it is completely different from the first film. Whereas The first M:I had a nice blend of espionage and action, this one is an exaggerated/story less sequel. It felt more like a bad James Bond movie then it felt like a good spy movie.
The movie's thin plot surrounds upon a man made lethal virus, deadly enough to kill someone in 48 hours. The plan is to release the virus and then make money from selling the antidote how original.. Right? The rest is Tom Cruise doing crazy stunts, and exaggerating his persona. Now the movie does have a lot of good action sequences that's for sure, and it sounds and looks nice on screen and john woo is known for that, known for making action look like poetry. But it doesn't do justice to the movie, it only makes it exaggerating; just because the action may look cool doesn't mean it will make a movie good, you need story also, which I felt was missing here. And the story they chose was bland and soulless. The fact is that this movie is a Tom Cruise vehicle rather than a team work espionage. It doesn't have the chemistry of the TV series nor of the first movie. Definitely rent before buying, unless you're an avid fan of the franchise.
MY PERSONL RATING: 3 OUT OF 5
 Mission Impossible 2 April 5, 2008
Douglas A. Arana (Los Angeles, CA USA)
Video quality is great but the plot itself has too much drama. The director of this film focused more on drama than action. The end is of a chinese film which does not look well for an american action film.
 Possibly the very worst major studio action film ever made February 15, 2008
Trevor Willsmer (London, England)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Okay, so De Palma's film wasn't Citizen Kane, but at least it had its moments when Cruise's insatiable vanity was kept in check in favour of some well-executed set-pieces (even if one was stolen lock, stock and barrel from Topkapi). Woo's disastrous sequel - at the time the most expensive film ever made - is like an endless hairspray commercial, with the ever limited Cruise (who used to be able to act but now just runs off a checklist of six annoying expressions) constantly flicking his hair in glowing slo-mo - you keep on expecting him to say 'Because I'm worth it.' Unfortunately, they're so busy making him look pretty that they forget to include any of the basics of a Summer movie. The action scenes are few and far between and not worth the wait; the script is another lazy and lifeless stinker from Robert Towne that rivals his Love Affair for banal inconsequentiality; and the Brits in the cast let the side down even more than Woo, Cruise and Towne combined - Thandie Newton seems semi-comatose, Hopkins hams it up and cashes the cheque, while Dougray Scott demonstrates just how dull an actor he can be even when mugging relentlessly. The only good thing that came of this film was the over-runs keeping Scott from playing Wolverine in X-Men: judging from his subsequent performances on screen and stage, if being boring on screen was an Olympic sport, this guy would win Scotland gold every time.
Possibly the most tedious vanity production ever made. Good extras on the DVD, but that's the best that can be said for it.
 Good Service January 28, 2008
Clinton A. Aneni (USA)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The product was deliverd to me in a timely fashion, in good condition and was exactly whaht I requested good service and would recommend the others to make purcahses through this person.
Terrible June 28, 2007
C. Lauritsen
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
All the karate BS in this movie really made me want to throw up in my mouth. The slow motion action seens are so gay and cliched that I became enfuriated that I spent my money on this. Why oh why?
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