Product Description

Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt is back, this time sent to Australia to track down ex-compatriot Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott) who has swiped the antidote for a deadly, genetically altered flu bug from a bio-tech firm. Hunt recruits a gorgeous thief (Thandie Newton) and former lover of Ambrose's to help him save the world. John Woo's high-adrenaline action-thriller also stars Anthony Hopkins, Ving Rhames; scripted by Robert Towne. 123 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English (SDH), French, Spanish; audio commentary by Woo; alternate opening; featurettes; music video; more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15314 in DVD
• Brand: Mission
• Released on: 2008-06-03
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Dubbed in: French
• Dimensions: .25 pounds
• Running time: 123 minutes

Features

• Condition: New
• Format: Blu-ray
• Widescreen

From The New Yorker
It should have been a treat. The director is John Woo, the man who took the gravity out of gunfights. The screenwriter is Robert Towne, who wrote half of the movies that made Jack Nicholson a star, and the leading lady is Thandie Newton, whose face could make a thousand ships do pretty much anything she wants. But this much-vaunted sequel to "Mission: Impossible," which hops from Australia to Spain and back again, is neither happy nor hip. It goes through the motions of the multinational action thriller, and, although those motions are as flamboyantly excessive as you would expect, the result is more gruelling than pleasurable. If the new flick has a core, it is Tom Cruise, who reprises his role as the leader of a team of spies. The sense of teamwork, however, has dropped away, and the plot-indeed, the whole movie-becomes an homage to the grim cockiness of Cruise, and, in particular, to his indestructible physique. The first film was merely incomprehensible; this one is unnecessary. -Anthony Lane
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