Mission: Impossible 2 [HD DVD]
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Actor: Dougray Scott, Richard Roxburgh, Thandie Newton, Tom Cruise, Ving RhamesDVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 123 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-05-22
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount Home Video
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DVD Review: WORTH WATCHING EVERY MINUTE
Summary: 3 Stars
At tis viewing I haven't watched the first Tom Cruise MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, but I probably will, later. Whether or not the flick got bad reviews doesn't affect my reaction. All I care about is what happens when I put it in the machine and sit down to watch. For me, that's the first time, and the movie is New and Original. And all I can say is, Tom Cruise is very, very good at what he does, and the world knows it.
Woo's direction is excellent, with a good deal of that HongKong dazzle we've all come to love. Fine by me. When I watach escapist flicks I don't expect realism, and don't really want it. But, I thik that what makes MI-2 as watchable as it is, is Cruise's persona; not his personality, but the clever use of his unusual and still unusually handsome face, coupled with his relatively small, wiry body. I think it was Salinger who said that actors were best served by havin small or relatively small bodies. It lends their movement -- particularly acrobatic or athletic movement -- an extra sense of spacial excitement. Big action actors like Schwartzenekker don't have that extra physical excitement, thogh they're as agile and move as well, simply because they're so big. Size makes them look slower. (Watch Donald O'Connor dance beside Gene Kelly. Kelly's good but Donald's flying!) In this film Cruise's stunts, like his high jumping or slithering down cables have an ariel circus kind of excitement. Personally, the opening mountain-climbing sequence filmed out in the Arizona high sandstone formations, hooked me. An acrophobic with a keen fear of heights, bare-handed climbing, alone, drives me wild, and when he slipped, or appeared to slip and fall maybe 20 or 30 feet down the face of the cliff, I let out a yell.
As for the rest of it, trick driving and particularly trick motorcycle stunt driving; I bought it. I love bike riding, thogh I never do any trick riding, and these sequences, like those in MATRIX RELOADED were thrilling.
Leading Lady? Thandie Newton (as "the Girl") did what she was supposed to do: she made Tom look great; ie., sexy and desireable. But, Newton? She was far more interesting and had more to do in RIDDIK, and made Karl Urban sexy by appearing to be attracted to him. Action Heroes require particulr kinds of actresses, and more often than not they must be exotic in some way. One remembers Rae Dawn Chong paired with Arnold, and of Grace Jones with Schwartzenekker, again, as Konan, and then playing beside Roger Moore's James Bond in VIEW TO A KILL. The idea seems to be, the greater the contrast between them, the greater and more exciting will the attraction appear. What happen to these actresses? Diesel's uber-heisse Bohemian squeeze in XXX; what ever happened to her?
Negative: Waste of Ving Rhames. Great face/head; great voice, but where was he? Miscast as a computer geek locked up in a van.
More selling points? The bad guys are convincing and well-played. The gadgets are as good as the WMD bacillus of the story. Plus, or make that a double-plus, the music is good and the sound is GREAT! Gives my Home Theatre set-up a workout.
All I can say is, its a hell of a lot of fun!
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