i thoroughly enjoy the first mission impossible . it be probably the only film that put you into the mind of a secret agent a he try to uncover a conspiracy that wipe out his cohort . it have excellent twist and who would have think that the hero of the tv series ( jim phelps ) finally turn into the bad guy . the sequel however have no plot and no interesting dialogue just mindless shootout that would leave gun and ballistic expert laugh in disbelief . john woo be not a director he be a second unit director that get lucky . he can not control his cast and he can not convey any plot and he can not stage believable action sequence . woo seem to be direct ( if you could call it that ) in his sleep . the storyline seem to slightly mirror the original film in that a member of imf go rogue ( not another one . ) and try to release a killer virus call chimaera on an unsuspecting world . apparently imf bos ( anthony hopkins ) know the whereabouts of the villain hideout and order ethan hunt to plant the bad guy ex girlfriend in an attempt to undermine him . ( wouldn not it have be good if they just attack the hq with commandos etc ) in the original film ethan hunt get promote to jim phelps rank within the organisation but in the sequel he be still a point man jump around in commando gear . ving rhames and his australian colleague seem to do absolutely nothing in this film other than occassionally tap on a computer laptop keyboard and try to look serious . by remove the team element that make the series so great it make the whole thing look like james bond rather than mission impossible . an interesting point to note be that since we know that jim phelp salary be 60k pa there be no way the rogue imf grunt in this film could afford a massive private army along with a beach front condo . some other laughable point in this film include representthe painstaking attempt by hunt to infiltrate a building by bungee jump down a giant ventilator shaft while the rogue imf villain and his private army gingerly stroll through the front door of say building . the imf villain must be unbelievably dumb to initiate a shootout ( include explosion ) with ethan hunt in a deadly virus or chemical research lab . the second unit director ( woo ) laughable obsession with white dove that seem to have more screen time than anthony hopkins . the throat elastoplast that enable people to talk like other people include perfect their accent ( south african and scottish and american ) and finally the car and motorcycle chase that seem to break the law of physic rather than break the monotony of the plot . it be hard to believe that it take four year of rewrite and production or shoot to create this sorry mess . even the soundtrack by metallica and limp bizkit be absolutely tuneless and irrelevant to the film . although it make an impressive opening weekend this film get so slat by critic and the medium that it would be lucky to break even from box office taking . so do not expect an mi3 so quickly . this movie will have the distinction of earn a golden turkey award .