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Cruise/Wagner Productions
Paramount Pictures
Mission: Impossible Collection
Expect the impossible again.
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.
Dr Nostromo
Jul 5, 2026 · via TMDB
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
GenerationofSwine
May 26, 2025 · via TMDB
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
Jul 1, 2022 · via TMDB
"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.
aardwark69
Apr 11, 2020 · via TMDB
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
Aug 16, 2016 · via TMDB
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
Jan 1, 2016 · via TMDB
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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Daniel Roberts
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Antonio Vargas
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Anthony Hopkins
Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)
Alison Araya
Girl (uncredited)
Rebecca Barratt
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Race Track Punter (uncredited)
Ryder Davis
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Patrick Marber
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William Morts
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Tory Mussett
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Shant Sarkissian
Party Attendant (uncredited)
Darren Dupree Washington
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Kevin Kavanaugh
Art Direction
Nathan Crowley
Art Direction
Michael Anthony Jackson
Storyboard Artist
Daniel T. Dorrance
Supervising Art Director
Marc Spicer
Camera Operator
Jeffrey L. Kimball
Director of Photography
Jasmine Yuen Carrucan
Second Assistant Camera
Kevin Yagher
Special Effects Makeup Artist
Klaus Badelt
Additional Music
Victoria Mielewska
Dialect Coach
Kim Libreri
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Brian Smrz
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Keith Campbell
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Debbie Evans
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Corey Michael Eubanks
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Dane Farwell
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Danny Wynands
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Daniel Mellitz
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Jason Ballantine
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John Woo
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Arthur Anderson
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Brian Smrz
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Tony Ciccone
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John Rogers
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Deborah Aquila
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Sarah Halley Finn
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Paula Wagner
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Tom Cruise
Producer
Kevin De La Noy
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Paul Massey
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Hans Zimmer
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Lalo Schifrin
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Marc Streitenfeld
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Sharon Jones
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Hans Zimmer
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Tony Lamberti
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Andy Nelson
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Anna Behlmer
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Mark P. Stoeckinger
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Adrian De Wet
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Erik Winquist
Compositing Artist
Dan Glass
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Charles Tait
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Craig Barron
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Janek Sirrs
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Bruce Geller
Original Series Creator
Robert Towne
Screenplay
Brannon Braga
Story
Ronald D. Moore
Story
May 18, 2000
Westwood, California
May 24, 2000
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