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  • Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)
    • On the set of Blackjack, Woo received a call from Tom Cruise, who wanted the director to work with him on a sequel to Mission: Impossible (1996)[1]
      • Cruise maintained that he wanted each Mission: Impossible film to have a different director and style from the previous
    • After Woo stated that he would only take the job if the film had a non-science-fiction story that appealed to him,[2] several scriptwriters, including Wesley Strick, William Goldman, Michael Tolkin, and Robert Towne made numerous revisions to the script in order to fit Woo's style[3]
    • However, the movie started production without a finished script, and Towne, the sole credited screenwriter, worked on even more changes during the editing of the film in order to create a coherent plot from the filmed action scenes[4]
    • Cruise, a producer on the film, insisted on performing as many of his own stunts himself, scaring Woo in a particularly dangerous stunt where he hung from a cliff by his fingertips after jumping over a chasm[5]
    • Production was plagued with problems, including inclement weather and crew changes (such as cinematographer Andrew Lesnie)[6][7]
    • It went over-schedule and over-budget, as production costs exceeded $100 million from its initial estimate of $80 million[8]
    • Mission: Impossible 2 was released to mixed critical reception[9]
    • David Ansen of Newsweek thought the movie was "oddly dull", believing that film's tone did not suit either Woo nor Cruise's strengths[10]
    • Writing for the BBC, William Gallagher enjoyed the action scenes; he was annoyed by the film's insistence on explaining the plot to the audience as well as the "painfully silly romance" storyline[11]
    • Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post said the movie was "such a feast of outlandish pleasures it'll send you home steam-cleaned and shrink-wrapped", though he thought the story was incomprehensible[12]
    • David Hunter of The Hollywood Reporter also deemed the plot incomprehensible; he liked Woo's action but said "his use of slow motion becomes tiresome, and the motorcycles-and-kung-fu finale gets pretty hokey."[13]
    • A. O. Scott of The New York Times stated the stylistic differences between Woo and previous director Brian De Palma accounted for the "weird discontinuity" between the first film and the sequel[14]

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  • Only two scenes used heavy CGI for safety and scale reasons: a helicopter jump stunt where Cruise crashes through a roof and slides down a shaft, and a scene where Cruise jumps from a roof with a parachute[15]
    • Woo: "We had to use CG to increase the scale and backgrounds in order to do those stunts safely [...] But even the scene where Tom jumps down the shaft was a real stunt—80-foot-high platform for that shot."

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References

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  1. ^ Thompson 2005, pp. 148–149.
  2. ^ ""Mission: Impossible 2": John Woo Interview". Hollywood.com. 2001-08-21. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  3. ^ Thompson 2005, p. 149.
  4. ^ Bonin, Liane (2000-05-24). ""M:I-2"'s screenplay was a last-minute work in progress". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  5. ^ Bonin, Liane (2000-05-17). "The truth behind M:I-2's most dangerous stunt". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  6. ^ "Mission: Impossible 2". Entertainment Weekly. 2000-04-21. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  7. ^ Baldwin, Kristen (1999-06-04). ""Mission Impossible 2" mired problems". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  8. ^ Thompson 2005, p. 144.
  9. ^ Chung, Winnie (2000-06-30). "The Next Mission". Asiaweek. Vol. 29, no. 25. CNN. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
  10. ^ Ansen, David (2000-06-04). "Muffed Mission". Newsweek. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  11. ^ Gallagher, William (2000-12-12). "Mission: Impossible 2". BBC. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  12. ^ Hunter, Stephen (2000-05-24). "Don't Forget to Breathe: 'Mission: Impossible 2' Gives an Aerobic Workout". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
  13. ^ Hunter, David (2020-05-24) [2000-05-24]. "'Mission: Impossible II': THR's 2000 Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  14. ^ Scott, A. O. (2000-05-24). "Mission? Improbable, but the Pigeons Are Nifty". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
  15. ^ Goldman, Michael (June 2000). "John Woo's mission". Millimeter. Vol. 28, no. 6. Cleveland, Ohio: Future Publishing. pp. 28–29. ISSN 0164-9655. Retrieved 2024-09-07 – via ProQuest.

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