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    Mission Impossible

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    • 1 The Hollywood Studio Orchestra & ChorusMission Impossible 2:17
    • 2 The Hollywood Studio Orchestra & ChorusLa Golondrina 3:01
    • 3 The Hollywood Studio Orchestra & ChorusTwo Guitars 3:00
    • 4 The Hollywood Studio Orchestra & ChorusMission Outside 3:25
    • 5 The Hollywood Studio Orchestra & ChorusThe Sun 3:16
    • 6 The Hollywood Studio Orchestra & ChorusSabre Dance 3:32
    • 7 The Hollywood Studio Orchestra & ChorusEl Relicario 3:34
    • 8 The Hollywood Studio Orchestra & ChorusCielito Lindo 3:36
    • 9 The Hollywood Studio Orchestra & ChorusMission Inside 3:08
    • 10 The Hollywood Studio Orchestra & ChorusDengozo 2:30

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    " Expect the impossible again"
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    Runtime 2 hr 3 min
    Budget $125 000 000
    Premiere: World $546 388 108 May 24, 2000
    USA $215 409 889
    Other countries $330 978 219
    Box Office – Budget $421 388 108
    Premiere: USA $215 409 889 May 18, 2000
    first day $12 516 528
    first weekend $57 845 297
    Digital: World May 1, 2012
    Parental Advisory
    • Frightening & Intense Scenes

      average

    • Violence & Gore

      average

    • Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking

      few

    • Profanity

      few

    • Sex & Nudity

      few

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    Description

    IMF agent Ethan Hunt is sent to Sydney to find and destroy a genetically modified disease called "Chimera".

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    Production

    According to screenwriter Robert Towne several action sequences were already planned for the film prior to his involvement and before the story had been written. Ian McKellen was offered the part of Mission Commander Swanbeck but turned it down.

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    Newsweek March 6, 2018

    "M:I-2," as the new Mission: Impossible is tagged, is a slick, expensive, bullet-ridden thriller that is oddly dull – the last thing you...

    SFGATE January 1, 2000

    M:I-2 is, at its best, more like two-hours of X-Games highlights, with an extremely flaccid story and visual fun.

    TimeOut February 9, 2006

    Woo’s hysterically hyper visuals and boytoy gimmickry can’t camouflage the emptiness of the enterprise.

    calendarlive.com January 1, 2000

    Once Woo unleashes his bad self and ignites the proceedings here, once the glass shatters, the flames erupt, the gunshots ricochet and the doves fl...

    Denver Post January 1, 2000

    M:I-2 does have a more understandable story than its predecessor – Robert Towne gets sole credit for it. But it isn’t told well.

    Decent Films May 8, 2002

    Becomes disastrously bogged down in an interminable second act that is joyless and inert and from which it doesn’t begin to recover for over an hour.

    Hollywood Reporter June 15, 2020

    Newton is just about the best thing about M:I-2, playing a thinly written and cryptically motivated character with such charisma that one hang...

    Austin Chronicle January 1, 2000

    Breezy, breathless, brainless fun.

    Austin Chronicle January 1, 2000

    Breezy, breathless, brainless fun.

    Common Sense Media December 26, 2010

    Good thrill ride of a movie for teens and older.

    BBC January 1, 2000

    The film continually halts the action to repeat the plot to us, sometimes word for word.

    Salon.com January 1, 2000

    Even the most spectacular things Woo unleashes here feel strangely impersonal.

    RogerEbert.com October 18, 2008

    If the first movie was entertaining as sound, fury and movement, this one is more evolved, more confident, more sure-footed in the way it marries m...

    ReelViews January 1, 2000

    Woo is in fine form.

    SFGATE June 18, 2002

    It’s fun. It’s laughable. It has moments of excitement, moments of sheer idiocy and moments of sheer idiotic excitement.

    globeandmail.com March 22, 2002

    A strained sequel to a feature rip-off of an old television show with a stealable theme song. On screen and off, no one’s getting marks...

    Entertainment Weekly January 1, 2000

    It’s eye candy that detonates.

    Observer April 27, 2007

    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. T...

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    Quotes

    You know, that was the hardest part of having to portray you, grinning like an idiot every fifteen minutes.

    Every search for a hero must begin with something that every hero requires, a villain.

    Well, this is not mission difficult, Mr. Hunt, it’s mission impossible.

    You were under specific instructions to bring back the Chimera, not to eradicate it.

    It’s not just a disease, it’s a weapon.

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    The fate of the second film in the franchise turned out to be unenviable, because something went wrong. John Woo made an atypical film for himself. The plot tells how the Mission Impossible squad saves the world from biological terrorism. Virus and antidote. A little action, but it works. I recommend

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    Standard plot for an action movie. There are so many slow-motion scenes with incredible acrobatics that sometimes it seems like Tom Cruise wanted to star in The Matrix, not a spy action movie.

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    Standard action movie plot. There are so many slow-motion scenes with incredible acrobatics that sometimes it seems like Tom Cruise wanted to star in The Matrix, not a spy action movie.

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    The coolest movie with the coolest director, the coolest slow mo, the coolest love story, the coolest plot and the coolest stunts. In short, complete crap

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    A scientist invents a drug to fight diseases, but as usual, it is a biological weapon of mass destruction. All hope lies with Ethan Hunt.

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    The final hand-to-hand fight was really cool. The movie was a bit boring for me in places. I felt like the narrative was too long.

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    John Woo action movies may be liked or not, but at least they have style. This benefited the Mission. Cruise revels in himself, Prince Charming rests.

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    This movie could have been 40 minutes shorter if you cut out all of Cruise’s self-admiration. The masks in the first part were more real than these, you believe them more. The plot here is spread thinly and is not so interesting. And this love story is also far-fetched.

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    I hope all the stunts and fights were performed by Tom Cruise himself, because they are too clumsy and ridiculous, I’m already silent about the pocket "printer" for printing out masks and voices. The sequel is weaker than the first part.

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