It’s Saturday and you know what that means! More movie watching! By the title you already know what we’re watching so, without further ado, here is the cringy cinematography of Mission: Impossible 2.
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The movie begins with this scientist named Dr. Nekhorvich who sends a message to the IMF for Ethan Hunt, a.k.a. Tom Cruise. He tells Ethan that his boss at the Pharmaceutical company Biocyte, is making a virus so he can profit from the cure. I’m not going to say what I’m thinking, but if you’re thinking what I’m thinking we should be friends hehe. He arranges to meet with Ethan in order to give him the virus and the cure. Of course, Ethan is on vacation so they send another guy named Sean to disguise himself as Ethan and get the virus and the cure on a plane. Well…Sean goes rogue and decides to kill Nekhorvich and everyone on the plane and steals the virus and the cure.
With Ethan still on vacation, the IMF still manage to find him and they send him on a mission to recruit Sean’s ex-girlfriend, Nyah and get the virus and the cure back. So we’re in Spain and Ethan meets Nyah and they meet for like a day and they’re already in love. I guess you could say they’re a couple now so yeah. That’s where we are at. So the plan is to have Nyah “get back with Sean” and spy on him. Of course, she’s going to have a tracker on her so Ethan and his crew, that’s right we got Luther back know where she is at all times.
So now we are back in Australia, where Biocyte is located and Sean is staying how convenient. As Ethan stakes out Biocyte, Nyah rekindles her relationship with Sean, even though one of Sean’s men has suspicions, and gives Ethan all and any information she can about what is going on. Now we’re at the Race Track and Sean meets with the CEO of Biocyte, John McCloy and shows him a video of the virus infecting Nekhorvich’s colleagues before blackmailing him into cooperating with him. Basically this virus kills you after 20 hours. This is important in the movie, you’ll see why in a bit. The cure can only save the victim within the 20 hour window. We know that because Nyah stole the SD card from Sean. When she returned it though, she put it in the wrong pocket of his jacket and now he knows that she’s not really in love with him.
Later on, Ethan’s team kidnaps McCloy and forces him to give up the cure, however the only samples of the cure were taken by Nekhorvich and now Sean has them. So in short, Sean has the cure, but not the virus. So, once McCloy is back safe and sound, Ethan and his crew break into Biocyte to destroy the virus. However, Sean tricks Nyah into revealing the plan because he disguised himself as Ethan, and Sean and his crew, along with Nyah, go to Biocyte to stop Ethan.
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Now Ethan is very close to destroying the virus, he has one vial left to destroy, and, for some reason he stops to realize that Nekhorvich injected himself with it to smuggle it onto the plane. THIS is what causes him to not be able to destroy the virus because Sean and his crew pull up and there’s a whole shooting fight. Until they realize they should probably stop shooting or else they’re going to release the virus.
Sean makes Nyah get the virus, but Nyah ain’t no bish, so she injects herself with the virus. I didn’t say she wasn’t stupid. Ethan is so upset that he tells Nyah to stay alive because he is going to get the cure to save her and he leaves.
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So here’s the funny part, Sean releases Nyah to wander the streets of Sydney intending to start a pandemic. BUT his plan literally could’ve never worked out anyway, because she was walking to the edge of a cliff because she was going to kill herself. It’s not funny that she was going to kill herself, it’s funny that he didn’t think about that. If she died, the virus would have never spread and this whole movie, and his plan, would have been for nothing. To be honest, I would have liked to see his face if that storyline happened. Luckily it didn’t, for Nyah’s sake, so here’s what actually happened.
Sean offers to sell the cure to McCloy in exchange for stock options to make him Biocyte’s majority shareholder. He plans to get rich from Biocyte’s stock due to demand for the cure after the virus is released. Ethan infiltrates the meeting and steals the remaining samples of the cure. While Ethan kills Sean’s men, Luther and Billy, a member of Ethan’s crew, locate Nyah, who, like I said before, is walking to a cliffside to kill herself. Sean chases Ethan to a beach, where Ethan beats him, duh, and with little time left on the 20 hour countdown, Luther reaches Ethan at the beach. As Ethan is about to give Luther the cure, Sean recovers and points a gun at Ethan. Ethan throws the canister containing the cure to Luther and manages to dodge Sean’s shot and shoots Sean instead and finally Sean is killed. Luther injects Nyah with the cure and she is saved!
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Ethan can now start his REAL vacation with Nyah in Sydney. The end. In my opinion I did like the story of this movie, the first one was good, but I might have liked this one a little better. Everything was shot in slow motion for the most part, which was a little cringey and there were weird scenes where Nyah and Ethan would like stare at each other, it was a lot. Very 2000s if you ask me haha. All in all, I would watch this again if I had to. The lesson I learned from this film: don’t create a virus just to profit off the cure ;).
Next movie: Mission: Impossible III