Mission: Impossible II [HD]

Put aside all logic and have fun!
If you can watch this purely for the visual excitment, it's awesome!

You know you're watching a John Woo movie if...

1. Most everyone is wearing a black trenchcoat.

2. Half the movie is in slow motion.

3. Heros are generally proceeded by doves or other glowing, symbolicitems of mass courage.

4. More than one helicopter explodes.

5. Everyone cool wears sunglasses and eventually removes them in a slow-motion, classy mannor.

6. Character names are unusual, but deeply representative.

7. Motorcycles are rampant.

8. The hero can shoot the badguy while jumping through fire, swinging from a rope, falling down an elevator shaft or riding on the front wheel of a motorcycle while spinning a one-hundred-eighty degree circle at sixty miles per hour.

9. The plot generally revolves around the villian's intent on mass destruction.

10. Ammunition lasts more than the clip can hold. MUCH more.

11. Always more than one gun shoots at the same time.

12. By the end of the movie...

WooHoo!
Once again, John Woo directs a masterpiece. Forget plot, forget actors, instead focus on the beauty within each camera frame. Mr Woo's style is perfect in form and pleasing to the eye. Watch the picture, see the use of symbolism, the fight between good and evil and the heroe's triumph.

The movie's plot did lag in the middle, but spectacular special effects and coreographed violence made it all worth it. Villians are a dime a dozen and only few stand out in our mind. This one does not quite do it, however. Tom cruise and his She-ra in the movie struggled through their lines. But remember that movies are not just actors and dialogue, they tell a story. This movie could have just had pictures and music and the story would been told just the same.

Surely not the best John Woo film out there, but a masterpiece as only he can deliver. Thanks Mr Woo!

High paced action in HD
I had this on DVD but could nnot resist seeing this in HD! The movie is fantastic with director John Woo placing his signature action sequences to great use. This time secret agent Ethen Hunt is on a mission to hunt down a threat called Chimera.

This is one of these movies that rewards you for having it in High-Def.

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