I've seen MI2 before in the cinema. Watching it again on TV, the movie felt so old and dated. Not my definition of a good movie. I keep expecting Tom Cruise to pull out a bottle of shampoo from his leather jacket and make a product testimonial. During the rock-climbing scene, the Boxster-and-TT ballet, the ventilation shaft acrobatics, and the motorcycle chase, all I noticed is Ethan Hunt's long, shiny, black hair sweeping the whole TV screen. The cameraman must've been gay, or else he would've pointed the camera more on Thandie Newton.Anyway, I've almost had enough of John Woo, too. His trademark slow-motion sequences and flying pigeons. At the start of the movie, we see the flamenco dancers in red dancing in slow-mo, while the impeccably suave Ethan Hunt stares down the voluptuous Nyan. The car ballet between the Porsche Boxster and Audi TT was also executed in slow-mo - Nyah looking pleadingly at Hunt and silently praying, "If you deliver me from this, I'll be your sex slave." And when Ethan walked into the dungeon room to face his nemesis (again in slow-motion) with the fire flickering in his eyes. Jeez.
The plot's not too bad though. This pharmaceutical company Biocyte developed his man-made virus with plans to spread it across the world, and make a killing selling the antidote. Ethan manages to destroy all but one of the virus capsules, which Nyan injected into herself so that the bad guys won't kill her. Ethan goes to an island fortress (Bare Island Fortification in La Perouse) to recover the antidote to save his lady love from becoming a virus petri dish. As to be expected, the bad guys are there waiting for him, setting up a final showdown between good and evil.
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