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Appearance
- 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]
- 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]
Plot
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[edit]Conception
[edit]Writing and development
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[edit]Filming and post-production
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[edit]- 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."
Release
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[edit]Legacy
[edit]Cultural influence
[edit]Critical reassessment
[edit]Sequels and spin-offs
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Thompson 2005, pp. 148–149.
- ^ ""Mission: Impossible 2": John Woo Interview". Hollywood.com. 2001-08-21. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Thompson 2005, p. 149.
- ^ Bonin, Liane (2000-05-24). ""M:I-2"'s screenplay was a last-minute work in progress". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
- ^ Bonin, Liane (2000-05-17). "The truth behind M:I-2's most dangerous stunt". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
- ^ "Mission: Impossible 2". Entertainment Weekly. 2000-04-21. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Baldwin, Kristen (1999-06-04). ""Mission Impossible 2" mired problems". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Thompson 2005, p. 144.
- ^ Chung, Winnie (2000-06-30). "The Next Mission". Asiaweek. Vol. 29, no. 25. CNN. Retrieved 2024-06-12.
- ^ Ansen, David (2000-06-04). "Muffed Mission". Newsweek. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
- ^ Gallagher, William (2000-12-12). "Mission: Impossible 2". BBC. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
- ^ Hunter, Stephen (2000-05-24). "Don't Forget to Breathe: 'Mission: Impossible 2' Gives an Aerobic Workout". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2024-06-15.
- ^ Hunter, David (2020-05-24) [2000-05-24]. "'Mission: Impossible II': THR's 2000 Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
- ^ Scott, A. O. (2000-05-24). "Mission? Improbable, but the Pigeons Are Nifty". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-05-03.
- ^ 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.
Cited literature
[edit]- Elder, Robert K., ed. (2005). John Woo: Interviews. Conversations with Filmmakers Series. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-776-3. Retrieved 2023-11-29.
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: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Heard, Christopher (2000). Ten Thousand Bullets: The Cinematic Journey of John Woo. Lone Eagle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-58065-021-2. Retrieved 2023-12-05.
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: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Stokes, Lisa Odham; Hoover, Michael (1999). City on Fire: Hong Kong Cinema. Verso. ISBN 978-1-85984-716-9. Retrieved 2024-04-12.
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Further reading
[edit]External links
[edit]- Hard Boiled at IMDb
- Hard Boiled at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
- Hard Boiled at AllMovie
- Hard Boiled at Letterboxd
- Hard Boiled at the TCM Movie Database