Review – Mission: Impossible 2

Just about the only serious fun I’ve been able to derive from either of the MI movies has been seeing how they’ve re-worked the theme music from the old TV show. In the first one, Art of Noise did a techno-reheat. This time around it gets a guitar-intensive workout. Though that aspect of the production was fun, there isn’t much more to put this outing on a to-see list. John Woo is in the director’s chair, so you can bet that there’s going to be a lot of top-dollar, tightly-edited action sequences. And in that respect the movie does not disappoint. But much of the celluloid that passes through the projector between the explosions and the shootings has been exposed to a parade of dull, predictable plot twists, situations oddly familiar from the first time around, and some of the worst dialogue ever written by anyone this side of Ed Wood. Furthermore, as good as Woo is at action, he should probably be physically prevented from ever attempting to handle romance. But hey, that’s what the fast forward button on the remote is for. See if desperate