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Mission: Impossible II is a 2000 action, thriller, and spy film directed by John Woo. The movie stars Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton, and Ving Rhames. It was produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner through Cruise/Wagner Productions and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The screenplay was written by Robert Towne, Ronald D. Moore, and Brannon Braga, with Hans Zimmer composing the score. The film is part of the Mission: Impossible series and was produced in the United States and Germany.
The narrative takes place in Sydney, Seville, and Dead Horse Point State Park, with filming conducted in Sydney, Australia, Dead Horse Point State Park, and Broken Hill. The film has a runtime of 123 minutes and a budget of 125000000. It received a PG-13 rating and was released on May 24, 2000. Critical reception included a Metascore of 59 and an IMDb rating of 6.1 based on 414947 votes. The film earned 546388108 in revenue and received 12 wins and 20 nominations.
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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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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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