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Title: Mission: Impossible - 2

Date Viewed: 5/28/00

Details:

Tom Cruise

Dougray Scott

Thandie Newton (gorgeous)

Ving Rhames

Anthony Hopkins (cameo)

Director: John Woo

Score: +

The Review: A not atypical M:I plot -- a caper within a caper, with twists and turns along the way. A biological theme, this time, with a pharmaceutical company cast as one of the villains. This time, after the way Cruise's character gets treated by the agency for which he "works", I'd not be surprised to see him go completely rogue in M:I-3.

Some of the technology is a bit bogus: a passive transponder with a range of over 100 miles?, remote orbital viewing from satellite with centimeter resolution? -- neither is likely, and suspension of disbelief is difficult. The molecular biology is also a bit bogus: DNA sequencers simply don't operate quite that fast, P3 facilities do not leave important glove boxes in non-P3 surroundings, cell and viral culture facilities are rather mundane looking, only use lasers to sort cells (and that, buried inside FACS machines), and sterile containers seldom are encased in glitzy metal cylinders.

Entertaining, though.

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