metamikeg Review of Mission: Impossible II

Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Far too over the top, but in retrospect that might've been a good thing.

[8/10 · 21 January 2023]

So this is the movie that definitely gets the hardest time out of the entire series. It's extremely over the top, and so drastically different from the first film.. I can see how it's polarizing to many, but mission impossible 3 is almost as over the top, it just had a far better personal story. However, in my opinion BECAUSE this movie was so far off into an entirely new insane genre, I believe in the long run this paved the way for future sequels to be so diverse and versatile in whatever they aimed to be. If the series continued to be as mellow as the first film was, I don't believe we would currently be at installment 7 as of writing, with a part 8 following soon after. So yes, I believe Mission:Impossible 2 definitely laid the groundwork for the following films to be as experimental as they wanted to be, and also further reinforced how much of an elite badass the character Ethan Hunt is. He is the perfect spy, and this is also further reinforced in M:I-3 which is great! I love this series, and I think part 2 here has earned its spot in it, even if it's at the bottom of the list.