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                            Mission Impossible II

> Now balletic violence is John Woo's thing, and I'll admit there's a
> fluidity (if no actual realism) to the fight scenes. But there's a fluidity
> to sewers, too, and that doesn't make them any nicer to watch for minutes
> at a time. The final fight sequence was especially tedious.
>

Bernard Kelly [1] in a user submitted review to The IMDB [2]

Saw Mission Impossible II [3] today with some friends and for a John Woo [4]
film, it was pretty dull. I kept wishing I could fast forward through parts.
The action sequences were well done, but the constant slow motion effects got
tiresome after awhile, and I felt like I was watching a second rate James
Bond rip-off than a Mission Impossible mind-bending caper.

And like Battlefield Earth, [5] the small details were good, like one of the
heros seeing the reflection of the obligatory LED countdown from a bomb
underneath the van reflected off a puddle into a rear view mirror, or the
line Anthony Hopkins says to Tom Cruise: “This isn't Mission Difficult, Mr.
Hunt. It's Mission Impossible.”

But the big details … totally missed.

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