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Starring
Tom Cruise, Richard Roxburgh, Thandie Newton, Dougray Scott

Director
John Woo

Year
2000

Genre
Action

Synopsis
Tom Cruise returns in this spy thriller sequel as Special Agent Ethan Hunt who teams up with the villain's ex-girlfriend to destroy an international conspiracy to sell a deadly virus to the highest bidder. Anthony Hopkins is the new chief who calls Hunt into adrenaline-fueled action reminiscent of director John Woo's 1997 hit Face/Off.

TRIVIA:
The song playing during the rock-climbing scene at the beginning is "Iko Iko", which also plays over the opening credits of Rain Man (1988), also starring Tom Cruise and scored by Hans Zimmer; Anthony Hopkins' character becomes the first person in any Mission Impossible episode or movie to actually use the phrase "mission: impossible"; two references to Stanley Kubrick: the sentence "so you are sorry and I am sorry" (the president's phone call in Dr. Strangelove (1964)) and the killing of the virus, with light and display warnings, like the killing of the hibernating astronauts in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

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