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Actors: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Anthony Hopkins
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Mission Impossible II |
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IMF agent Ethan Hunt is seen killing people and stealing something from a plane, then bailing out, but it's not really him: the man pulls off a mask and turns out to be former IMF agent Sean Ambrose (Scott) who turned bad and stole the cure (code name "Bellerophon") for a genetically created disease called "Chimera." The real Hunt is assigned to retrieve and destroy "Chimera," and enlists the help of an international thief named Nyah Nordhoff-Hall (Newton), who is an ex-girlfriend of Ambrose. Hunt falls for her, then sends her off to reunite with Ambrose -- who wants her back -- as part of the mission. The film starts with a celebrated sequence in which Hunt climbs a sheer rock face in Utah to learn the mission, but most of it takes place in Sydney, Australia. With a screenplay by veteran writer Robert Towne (the plot is similar to Hitchcock's "Notorious") and directed by Chinese martial arts specialist John Woo, this 2000 film is simpler and more action-packed than the first.
--David Loftus, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 60%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 20%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- Preventing bomb/biohazard/disaster
Combat acrobatics/martial arts?
Yes
Romance
Yes
Kind of movie
- combat acrobatics/bullet time
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- muscular (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (woman) long wavy
Body type
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- buttocks and chest
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- mastermind
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Body type
- muscular (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- West
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- Australia
Mountains/Cliffs
Yes
City?
Yes
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- 8 or more
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing breasts
- sex under blankets
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 6 ()
Kind of violence:
- mission to destroy something
- mission to protect something
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
Is this movie based on a
- TV show
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