Chimera is a deadly virus that will bare a deathly death unless you are given the antidote. The creator of Chimera is murdered and the antidote is stolen by a disavowed IMF agent, Sean Ambrose. The Impossible Mission Force, IMF, hire the skilled and charming Ethan Hunt, and the beautiful Nyah Nirdoff-Hall, who has had her share with Ambrose. Ethan Hunt climbing rocks with his bare hands. At the top he gets the glass which shows him his mission. You can buy the movie from here: http://amzn.com/B00.

Music from and Inspired by Mission: Impossible 2 is the soundtrack album for the 2000 film Mission: Impossible 2. It was certified gold for 100,000 copies shipped in Japan in August 2000.^[2]

Track listing[edit]

1. 'Take a Look Around' – Limp Bizkit
2. 'I Disappear' – Metallica
3. 'Scum of the Earth' – Rob Zombie
4. 'They Came In' – Butthole Surfers
5. 'Rocket Science' – The Pimps
6. 'Have a Cigar' (Pink Floydcover) – Foo Fighters and Brian May
7. 'Mission 2000' – Chris Cornell
8. 'Goin' Down' – Godsmack
9. 'What U Lookin' At?' – Uncle Kracker
10. 'Backwards' – Apartment 26
11. 'Karma' – Diffuser
12. 'Alone' – Buckcherry
13. 'Immune' – Tinfed
14. 'Not My Kinda Scene' – Powderfinger
15. 'Carnival' – Tori Amos
16. 'Nyah' – Hans Zimmer feat. Heitor Pereira

Many versions of the soundtrack include additional songs that are not available on the North American releases. For example:

• The UK version includes the song 'Iko-Iko' from Zap Mama.
• The Japan version includes 2 extra songs: 'S.O.S' by Oblivion Dust and 'Iko-Iko' from Zap Mama.
• The Australia version includes 3 extra songs: 17) Zap Mama – 'Iko Iko'; 18) 28 Days – 'Sucker'; 19) Josh Abrahams – 'Theme From Mission Impossible'.
• The Latin American version includes 2 extra songs, including 'Deslizándote' by Saúl Hernández.
• The Brazilian version includes 1 extra song: 'Give my Bullet Back' by Raimundos.
• The Asian version includes 2 extra songs: 'Iko-Iko' by Zap Mama and 'Afraid of What?' by Leon Lai, which contains a mixture of English and Mandarin.

Court case[edit]

The illegal online availability of a demo of the song 'I Disappear' prior to the release of the soundtrack led to the 2000 U.S. district court case Metallica v. Napster, Inc.

Certifications and sales[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Allmusic review'. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
2. ^'GOLD ALBUM 他認定作品 2000年8月度' [Gold Albums, and other certified works. September 2000 Edition] (PDF). The Record (Bulletin) (in Japanese). Chūō, Tokyo: Recording Industry Association of Japan. 491: 8. October 10, 2000. Archived from the original(PDF) on January 22, 2014. Retrieved January 22, 2014.
3. ^'ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2000 Albums'. Australian Recording Industry Association.
4. ^'Canadian album certifications – Various Artists – MISSION IMPOSSIBLE II - ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK'. Music Canada.
5. ^'Japanese album certifications – Various Artists – Mission: Impossible 2 (soundtrack)' (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan.
6. ^Basham, David (February 7, 2002). 'Got Charts?'. Mtv. Retrieved July 9, 2019.

Mission: Impossible 2 (stylized as M:i-2)^[1] is a 2000 American actionspy film directed by John Woo and produced by and starring Tom Cruise. The sequel to 1996 film Mission: Impossible, it is the second installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. It follows Ethan Hunt as he is recruited by the Impossible Missions Force (IMF) to find and destroy a dangerous biological weapon called 'Chimera' from rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose with the help of his new girlfriend Nyah Nordoff-Hall.

Mission: Impossible 2 was released in theaters worldwide on May 24, 2000 to strong box office results, and grossed over $546 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of 2000, and was the highest-grossing film in the series for 11 years. The film received mixed reviews from critics, who praised the action sequences, performances, direction, score and dramatic depth, but took issue with the plot, dialogue and pacing. It was followed by Mission: Impossible III in 2006.

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Plot[edit]

Bio-chemical expert Dr. Vladimir Nekhorvich sends a message to the IMF for Ethan Hunt, an old friend of his, warning that his employer, Biocyte Pharmaceuticals, forced him to develop a biological epidemic to profit from its remedy. He arranges to meet with Ethan to deliver the Chimera virus, and its cure, Bellerophon. With Ethan on vacation and incommunicado, the IMF sends agent Sean Ambrose disguised as Ethan to meet Nekhorvich on a passenger plane. Ambrose goes rogue, killing Nekhorvich and stealing Bellerophon before his men destroy the plane.

IMF Commander Swanbeck informs Ethan of the circumstances of Nekhorvich's death and they determine Ambrose is responsible. Swanbeck tasks Ethan with recovering the virus and its cure, and has him recruit Nyah Nordoff-Hall, a professional thief presently operating in Seville, Spain. Nyah was recruited as a part of the team to trace Ambrose and his team and kill them since she is Ambrose's ex-girlfriend. Ethan reluctantly convinces her to spy on Ambrose.

Ethan assembles his team, computer expert Luther Stickell and pilot Billy Baird, in Sydney, Australia, where Biocyte laboratories are located and Ambrose is staying. As Ethan stakes out Biocyte, Nyah rekindles her former relationship with Ambrose and relays information to Ethan's team. At a horse racing event, Ambrose meets with Biocyte's CEO, John C. McCloy. He shows McCloy a memory card video of Chimera affecting one of Nekhorvich's colleagues before blackmailing McCloy into cooperating with him. Nyah steals the camera's memory card and delivers it to Ethan. They learn that Chimera has a 20-hour dormant period before it causes death by mass destruction of the victim's red blood cells. Bellerophon can only save the victim if used within that 20-hour window. When Nyah discreetly returns the memory card to Ambrose, he notices it is in the wrong pocket of his jacket.

Ethan's team kidnaps McCloy to force him to give up Bellerophon. However, the only Bellerophon samples were taken by Nekhorvich, and are now in Ambrose's hands. Ambrose has the cure, but does not have the virus; unbeknownst to him at the time, Nekhorvich injected himself with Chimera to smuggle it out of Biocyte. Ambrose plans to exchange a sample of Bellerophon to McCloy for a sample of Chimera. Ethan's team breaks into Biocyte to destroy the virus before the exchange can take place. Ambrose, posing as Ethan, tricks Nyah into revealing the plan, then captures Nyah and raids Biocyte to secure the virus. Ethan is able to destroy all but one sample of Chimera before Ambrose intervenes, and a firefight ensues, culminating in the sample being dropped on the floor between Ambrose and Ethan. Ambrose orders Nyah to retrieve the sample; she instead injects herself with it, preventing Ambrose from simply killing her after she retrieved it for him. Nyah insists that Ethan kill her to destroy the virus but Ethan is unwilling to do so. Ambrose takes Nyah away as Ethan escapes from the laboratory.

Ambrose releases Nyah to wander the streets of Sydney in a daze, intending to start a pandemic. He offers to sell Bellerophon to McCloy in exchange for stock options, to make him Biocyte's majority shareholder. He predicts that the price of Biocyte's stock will skyrocket due to demand for Bellerophon after the Chimera outbreak. Ethan infiltrates the meeting and steals the remaining samples of Bellerophon. While Ethan is pursued by Ambrose and his men, Luther and Billy locate Nyah, who has wandered to a cliff side, intent on killing herself to prevent the eventual outbreak. Ethan kills Ambrose's men but Ambrose chases him to a beach where Ethan defeats him in a brutal fistfight. With little time left on the 20-hour countdown, Luther reaches Ethan at the beach. As Ethan is about to give Luther the Bellerophon canister, Ambrose recovers and points a gun at Ethan. Ethan throws the canister to Luther and jumps away from Ambrose's shot while kicking up a gun from the sand which he uses to finally kill Ambrose. Luther injects Nyah with the Bellerophon in time to cure her.

IMF clears Nyah's criminal record and Ethan starts his vacation with her in Sydney.

Cast[edit]

• Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt
• Thandie Newton as Nyah Nordoff-Hall
• Ving Rhames as Luther Stickell
• Dougray Scott as Sean Ambrose
• Brendan Gleeson as John C. McCloy
• Richard Roxburgh as Hugh Stamp
• John Polson as Billy Baird
• Radé Sherbedgia as Dr. Vladimir Nekhorvich
• William Mapother as Wallis
• Dominic Purcell as Ulrich
• Mathew Wilkinson as Michael
• Anthony Hopkins as Mission Commander Swanbeck (uncredited)^[4]

Production[edit]

According to screenwriter Robert Towne several action sequences were already planned for the film prior to his involvement and before the story had been written.^[5]

The studio expressed concern over the safety of shooting Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise)'s entrance in the film, where he is free solo climbing in Moab, Utah's Dead Horse Point State Park.^[6] Cruise refused to drop the idea because he could not think of a better way to reintroduce the character. There was no safety net as he filmed the sequence, but he did have a harness. He tore his shoulder when performing the jump from one part of the cliff to another.^[7] Most of the scenes were also shot in Sydney, Australia.

Music[edit]

The film's original score was composed by Hans Zimmer and features vocals performed by Lisa Gerrard.^[8] In addition, the film includes contemporary music such as Limp Bizkit's rendition of Lalo Schifrin's Mission: Impossible theme entitled 'Take a Look Around' as well as Metallica's 'I Disappear'.^[9]

While vacationer Ethan is rock climbing, Zap Mama's remixed version of 'Iko Iko' plays on the soundtrack.

Release[edit]

In its North American opening weekend, the film grossed $57,845,297, ranking at #1. It held on to the No. 1 spot for three weekends. The film eventually grossed $215,409,889 in its North American release and $330,978,216 in other territories, totaling $546,388,105 worldwide, the highest-grossing film of 2000.^[3] It is John Woo's highest grossing film of all time, surpassing Face/Off, and was the highest-grossing film in the Mission: Impossible series at the time of release, holding the record for eleven years before being surpassed by Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.

Mission: Impossible 2 was released on VHS and DVD on November 7, 2000,^[10] with a rare Japanese LaserDisc release following on March 4, 2001^[11] (released extremely late in the format's life), with a potential North American release of this LaserDisc being cancelled in mid-2001.^[12] A Blu-ray release followed on June 3, 2008, and an Ultra HD Blu-ray version was released on June 26, 2018.^[13]

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Critical reception[edit]

Mission: Impossible 2 received mixed reviews from critics. Praise was aimed at the action sequences, emotional depth, John Woo's direction, Hans Zimmer's musical score, and the performances of the cast, but gave negative attention to the convoluted plot, weak dialogue, departure from its source material, lack of substance and slow pacing, particularly the lack of action for the film's first hour and a half. Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes indicates the film was certified as 'Rotten' with overall approval rating of 57% based on 143 reviews, with an average score of 5.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, 'Your cranium may crave more substance, but your eyes will feast on the amazing action sequences'.^[14]Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 59 out of 100, based on 40 reviews, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.^[15] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of 'B' on an A+ to F scale, down from the first film's 'B+'.^[16]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said that 'if the first movie was entertaining as sound, fury, and movement, this one is more evolved, more confident, more sure-footed in the way it marries minimal character development to seamless action.'^[17]Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly felt the film was a 'throwaway pleasure' but also 'a triumph of souped-up action.'^[18] Ella Taylor of LA Weekly said that 'every car chase, every plane crash, every potential drop off a cliff is a masterpiece of grace and surprise.'^[19] Desson Howe of The Washington Post said that '[John] Woo [...] takes complete command of the latest technology to create brilliant action sequences.'^[20] Lou Lumenick of the New York Post said, 'Check your brains at the popcorn stand and hang on for a spectacular ride.'^[21]

J. Hoberman of The Village Voice called the film 'a vaguely absurd thriller filled with elaborately superfluous setups and shamelessly stale James Bond riffs.'^[22] Dennis Harvey of Variety said the film is 'even more empty a luxury vehicle than its predecessor' and that it 'pushes the envelope in terms of just how much flashy packaging an audience will buy when there's absolutely nada inside.'^[23] Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader said that 'no hero or villain winds up carrying any moral weight at all.'^[24]

In a retrospective commentary in 2012, Brad Brevet noted the film has significant similarities in plot and themes to Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious.^[25]

Mission: Impossible 2 was nominated for two Golden Raspberry Awards at the 2000 ceremony, including Worst Remake or Sequel and Worst Supporting Actress for Thandie Newton.^[26]

A comedy short titled Mission: Improbable was shown during the 2000 MTV Movie Awards. It is a mockumentary of the behind-the-scenes stunts of Mission: Impossible 2, and stars Cruise, Ben Stiller, and Woo.^{[citation needed]}

Sequel[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcd'Mission: Impossible II (2000)'. British Film Institute. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
2. ^'Mission: Impossible II (15)'. British Board of Film Classification. June 5, 2000. Retrieved August 2, 2015.
3. ^ ^abc'Mission: Impossible II (2000)'. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved July 13, 2011.
4. ^https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/184585/Mission-Impossible-2/overview
5. ^Argent, Daniel (February 25, 2016). ''It's just as hard every time.' Robert Towne on Screenwriting'. Creative Screenwriting. Retrieved February 25, 2016.Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
6. ^'Moab Movie Locations - Take a tour of some of Moab's famous movie locations'. Retrieved October 5, 2014.
7. ^'Friday Night with Jonathan Ross: Series 16: Episode 1'. BBC iPlayer. January 23, 2009. Retrieved January 24, 2009.^{[link expired]}
8. ^'Filmtracks: Gladiator (Hans Zimmer/Lisa Gerrard)'. Filmtracks.com. October 27, 2007. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
9. ^'Mission: Impossible 2 [Original Soundtrack]'. Allmusic. Retrieved February 2, 2013.
10. ^Woo, John (November 7, 2000), Mission: Impossible 2, Paramount, retrieved May 2, 2018
11. ^'LaserDisc Database - Mission: Impossible 2 [PILF-2865]'. LaserDisc Database. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
12. ^'LaserDisc Database - Mission: Impossible 2 [LV334873-WS]'. LaserDisc Database. Retrieved November 25, 2018.
13. ^'Mission: Impossible II DVD Release Date'. DVDs Release Dates. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
14. ^'Mission Impossible 2 (2000)'. Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
15. ^'Mission: Impossible II Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 6, 2018.
16. ^'CinemaScore'. cinemascore.com.
17. ^Roger Ebert (May 24, 2000). 'Mission: Impossible II'. Chicago Sun-Times.
18. ^'Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)', Owen Gleiberman, June 2, 2000, Entertainment Weekly, Time Inc.
19. ^Mission: Impossible II review, Ella Taylor, LA WeeklyArchived January 15, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
20. ^'M:I-2': Mission Accomplished', Desson Howe, May 26, 2000, The Washington Post.
21. ^Mission: Impossible II review, Lou Lumenick, New York Post. Archived June 13, 2001, at the Wayback Machine
22. ^'Smoke and Mirrors', J. Hoberman, May 30, 2000, The Village Voice.
23. ^'Mission: Impossible 2', Dennis Harvey, May 23, 2000, Variety.
24. ^Mission: Impossible II review, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
25. ^Brad Brevet. 'Did You Know 'Mission: Impossible 2' is a Remake of Hitchcock's 'Notorious'? Here, Have a Look...'Rope of Silicon. Retrieved October 5, 2015.
26. ^'2000 RAZZIE Nominees & 'Winners''. Golden Raspberry Award Foundation. December 4, 2005. Retrieved January 1, 2012.

External links[edit]

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• Mission: Impossible 2 on IMDb
• Mission: Impossible 2 at Metacritic
• Mission: Impossible 2 at Box Office Mojo
• Mission: Impossible 2 at Rotten Tomatoes

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