Mission: Impossible 2

Mission: Impossible 2
Ethan Hunt running
Theatrical release poster
Directed byJohn Woo
Screenplay byRobert Towne
Story by
Based onMission: Impossible
by Bruce Geller
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyJeffrey L. Kimball
Edited by
Music byHans Zimmer
Production
company
Distributed byParamount Pictures[1]
Release date
  • May 24, 2000 (2000-05-24)
Running time
124 minutes[2]
Countries
LanguageEnglish
Budget$120–125 million[3][4]
Box office$546.3 million[4]

Mission: Impossible 2 (titled onscreen as Mission: Impossible II and abbreviated as M:I-2)[1] is a 2000 action spy film directed by John Woo, and produced by and starring Tom Cruise. It is the sequel to Mission: Impossible (1996) and the second installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. The film also stars Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleeson, Rade Šerbedžija and Ving Rhames. In the film, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) teams with professional thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Newton) to secure a genetically modified disease, Chimera, held by rogue Impossible Missions Force (IMF) agent Sean Ambrose (Scott), who is Nordoff-Hall's former lover.

Mission: Impossible 2 was theatrically released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on May 24, 2000, and grossed $546 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of that year. Initial reactions from critics were mixed, with praise for the action sequences and Woo's direction, but criticism for the characterization. A sequel, Mission: Impossible III, was released in 2006.

  1. ^ a b c d e "Mission: Impossible II (2000)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on September 14, 2017. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
  2. ^ "Mission: Impossible II (15)". British Board of Film Classification. June 5, 2000. Archived from the original on June 19, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
  3. ^ "Mission: Impossible 2 (2000) - Financial Information". The Numbers. Archived from the original on January 14, 2023. Retrieved January 14, 2023.
  4. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference BOM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).