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Mission: Impossible 2 is a 2000 action film directed by John Woo that continues the spy thriller franchise. The film is notable for bringing Woo's distinctive style of high-octane action sequences to the Hollywood blockbuster format.
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Film · TMDB
6.1With 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.
Cast
- Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
- Dougray Scott as Sean Ambrose
- Thandiwe Newton as Nyah Hall
- Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
- Richard Roxburgh as Hugh Stamp
- John Polson as Billy Baird
Themes
- dying and death
- mask
- island
- central intelligence agency (cia)
- helicopter
- computer
- spain
- undercover
- skyscraper
- secret mission
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Ratings
IMDb
6.1/10
413,413 votes
Metacritic
59/100
- Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 123 min
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Thriller
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 12 wins & 20 nominations total
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 124
- FilmAffinity ID
- 250881
- Official website
- www.paramountmovies.com/movies/mission-impossible-ii
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- publication date
- 2000-00-00
- title
- Mission: Impossible II
- capital cost
- 125000000
- box office
- 215409889
- review score
- 59/100
- short name
- M:I-2
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Encyclopedic overview
Mission: Impossible 2 (titled onscreen as Mission: Impossible II and abbreviated as M:i-2) is a 2000 action spy film directed by John Woo from a screenplay by Robert Towne, and produced by and starring Tom Cruise. It is a standalone sequel to Mission: Impossible (1996) and the second installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. The film also stars Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleeson, Rade Šerbedžija and Ving Rhames. In the film, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) teams with professional thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Newton) to secure a genetically modified disease, Chimera, held by rogue Impossible Missions Force (IMF) agent Sean Ambrose (Scott), who is Nordoff-Hall's former lover.
Mission: Impossible 2 was theatrically released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on May 24, 2000, and grossed over $546 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of that year. It received mixed reviews from critics, with praise for the action sequences and Woo's direction, but criticism for the characterization. A third film, Mission: Impossible III, was released in 2006.
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