Mission: Impossible 2

Mission: Impossible 2
Mission: Impossible 2
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Woo
Screenplay by	Robert Towne
Story by	Ronald D. Moore; Brannon Braga;
Based on	Mission: Impossible; by Bruce Geller
Produced by	Tom Cruise; Paula Wagner;
Starring	Tom Cruise; Dougray Scott; Thandiwe Newton; Richard Roxburgh; John Polson; Brendan Gleeson; Rade Šerbedžija; Ving Rhames;
Cinematography	Jeffrey L. Kimball
Edited by	Christian Wagner; Steven Kemper;
Music by	Hans Zimmer
Production; company	Cruise/Wagner Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date	May 24, 2000;
Running time	124 minutes
Countries	United States; Germany;
Language	English
Budget	$120–125 million
Box office	$546.3 million

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 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, deeming the film inferior to the first film. A sequel, Mission: Impossible III, was released in 2006.

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^ "Mission: Impossible II (15)". British Board of Film Classification. June 5, 2000. Archived from the original on June 19, 2022. Retrieved January 1, 2021.
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[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.

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