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Axel Matfin

Live review - Mission Impossible 2: Nu-Metal the Movie

I will be watching and providing my thoughts on Mission Impossible 2. Easily most people's least favourite film in the series, although I personally think 3 is the worst. However I'm interested to give this a spin for all the Limp Bizkit, Oakley sunglasses, John Wu hot off the serious critical and commercial success of FaceOff (something I've never understood) comedically self serious Cruise and full tilt year 2000 energy. My mission, should I choose to make it all the way to the end of the movie is to stay engaged for the film's dead zones of quality. This discussion will self destruct after my 3rd vodka soda.

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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
There's literally no point trying to describe the last 23 ish minutes of this movie. It's the reason to watch it, and I find it fascinating. For all the other amazing faults and failures of the story, the last extended action sequence is one of the best to be put to film, and I would compare it to the work of George Miller on Fury Road. Which is why I'm gonna write something about it soon.</br></br>But the actual ending of MI2 sucks ass. Yikes bad.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
Luther shooting a grenade launcher is great.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
The matrix eques long jacket on cruise not to mention the shades? Is just awesome. High contrast imagery with serious gunfights and then some Ducattis? Fuck yea.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
Ethan rips HIS mask off, hey some doves, and then we are on our way out.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
Epic music while bad guy is bad, that's a Wu!
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
The Ethan they captured is of course someone in a mask, at this point in the movie you don't doubt it, but it's more about the bad guy realizing than anything.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
Lmao, all this for 30 million. </br></br>"Dr. Evil in 1997, 1 million dollars is not a lot of money"
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
Recently I thought it was the McQuarrie influence on these movies that brought the Metal Gear vibe, but I'm wondering it wasn't Cruise all along. This end action gauntlet is so removed from anything modern and features sensibilities that are so attuned to not just Wu but Kojima as well. It would make more sense that Wu would be acquainted with Kojima, but Cruise has to know who he is by now.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
At this leg of the movie I'm feeling a lot of the pulsing vibes and droning ambient energy that would find it's way into the Batman Begins score.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
Although Ethan uses guns and totally kills people in other movies, this is def the most gun heavy movie. Fuck them Doves again!
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
This is much more BOND than Mission.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
1:33 in
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
Backflip double kick. That's how it's done! That's how I do it.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
Fuck stock market manipulation bad guy stuff is so rote now that this stuff just feels quaint. Oh shit the doves!
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
The CIA kills people for less than 30 Million. I could see a missile strike on this compound being more effective.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
Man bad guys who want bio weapons, they really are willing to go all the way for....30 million?!
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
Excellent bad guy compound top notch.</br></br>Also DOVES
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
There is so much Metal Gear in this movie.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
The last part of this movie makes no goddamn sense except that there are motorcycles, it's beautiful Australia, there is somehow a full chopper shot of a bad guy compound and Ethan rock climbs his way in.
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Axel MatfinAugust 25, 2025
The second half of this action encounter is muddled in Ethan realizing he can't pull this mission off as he planned it. Then she tries to get him to kill her, but then...the Ethan we know can't do it. Haunted by his team's death in movie one he blows a hole in the wall and dives out "Stay Alive, I'm not going to lose you", while sparks and gunshots fire and he dives out into space. </br></br>My 14 year old self is like, hell yeah