MOVIE COMPANY: Paramount Pictures
CAST: Starring Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleeson, Rade Sherbedgia and Ving Rhames.
DIRECTED BY: Directed by John Woo
PRODUCED BY: Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner
RATING: Rated PG-13
INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE URL: http://us.imdb.com/Title?0120755
TYPE OF MOVIE: Action, adventure, thriller, mystery
DURATION: 123 minutes
The world’s greatest spy returns in the movie event of the year, M:I-2. Top action director John woo brings his own brand of excitement to the mission that finds Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) partnering up with the beautiful Nyah Hall (Thandie Newton) to stop renegade Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) from releasing a new kind of terror on an unsuspecting world. But before the mission is complete, they’ll traverse the globe and have to choose between everything they love and everything they believe in.
DVD EXTRAS:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, Surround Sound, Digital Sound
• Commentary by director John Woo
• 15-minute “Behind the Mission” exclusive cast and crew interviews
• Five-minute “Mission Incredible” stunts featurette “Impossible Shots”
• Exclusive interviews with John Woo, Tom Cruise, stunt coordinator Brian Smrz and others
• Metallica’s music video of “I Disappear”
• Alternate title sequence
• MTV Movie Awards show parody, “Mission Improbable” with Tom Cruise, Ben Stiller and John Woo.
• Widescreen anamorphic format
KNOWN DVD SECRET(S): None that I could find.
DVD REVIEW:
I must admit that when I first saw M:I-2, I thought it was a good movie but not so great that people hyped it up to be. I just watched it and then said to myself, “Can’t wait for X-Men!”
I think I felt this way because the first had action but had more dialogue and made you think. This one was typical Woo…so much action jam packed into the film. I guess if you were expecting to use your wit and expect more dialogue and character development, then you would feel that something was missing and that’s how I felt.
Well, since watching the DVD, what can I say…I appreciate the movie even more. Why is that? Well, after watching the special features which include “Behind the Mission” and “Mission Incredible” stunts featurettes, I never knew how much Tom Cruise had to do for this movie. Every stunt scene, he didn’t want to use a stunt double, he wanted to do everything himself…many times until he got it right. Now that’s a dedicated actor. For me, the fact that Cruise did nearly every hardcore stunt makes me appreciate the person as an actor and thus appreciate the effort put into M:I-2.
Now as for the DVD features, there are numerous features. My favorite is the “Mission Improbable” starring Ben Stiller that was used for the MTV Movie Awards. That was awesome! Also, it was awesome to see the Metallica music video and comedy from the Woo.
As for picture and audio. With the first movie, I was really angry about how the sound quality was not too par with other action films. This time with the second movie, the audio is awesome! Even the video transfer is awesome!Â
THE MOVIE:Â A-
THE DVD EXTRAS:Â A
THE DVD OVERALL:Â A-