The Rewatch Party 245 - Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)

About this episode

The episode discusses the film Mission: Impossible 2, exploring its themes, style, and cultural significance.

We strap on the Oakleys, cue up Limp Bizkit, and immediately start asking the hard questions. Everyone is whispering, doves are everywhere, and Tom Cruise glues himself to a rockface. Yep, John Woo was here. This week we slow motion our way into Mission Impossible 2, a motorcycle kicking, face ripping mad dash where the vibes are immaculate and the plot mostly exists to justify another coat flutter. Along the way we marvel at aggressively yanked terrain warnings, questionable science, Anthony Hopkins popping in like he lost a bet, and another villain who truly believes in the finger snipping bad guy school of management. It is the most year 2000 movie imaginable, and we have a lot of feelings about it. From exploding sunglasses to masks under masks under worse masks, this movie is operating at maximum swagger and minimum concern for how viruses or gravity work. Thandiwe Newton is asked to carry emotional weight while dodging motorcycles, Tom Cruise broods with the intensity of a man legally prohibited from blinking. Is it the best entry in the franchise? No. Is it a fascinating artifact from a time when action movies were legally required to be sweaty and loud? Absolutely. Join…

Topics covered

• action movies
• film reviews
• 2000s cinema
• Mission Impossible franchise
• nostalgia
• comedy

Keywords

• Mission Impossible 2
• Tom Cruise
• Thandiwe Newton
• action movies
• 2000s
• John Woo
• Limp Bizkit
• film review
• nostalgia

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Limp Bizkit, John Woo

Books & works: Mission: Impossible 2

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