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2000 |
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PG-13 |
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123 minutes |
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M:I-2 |
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John Woo |
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Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner |
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Paramount Pictures |
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Tom Cruise, Anthony Hopkins, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames |
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See also:
Mission: Impossible 3
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Mission: Impossible II Image Gallery, Wallpapers & Desktop Themes |
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The scene where Tom Cruise "peels off his face" to reveal Dougray Scott was achieved in one shot by shooting both actors against a green screen. Cruise, not wearing a mask, was simply told to place his hand in a pre-arranged position under his chin then pull his hand across his face. Scott wore a plain mask with sensors that could provide a computer with a three-dimensional view of his face. He then peeled off this mask to finish the scene. Cruise's face was superimposed on the mask as it is pulled away and the two images morphed together in the computer; the background of the 747 cabin was added in to replace the green screen. (Watch the scene with frame advance and you will see a slight transitional 'swirl' on the mask halfway through the scene). Kevin Yagher contributed some more traditional latex mask effects for other face-peeling scenes.
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Sean Ambrose: If you look at Hunt's operational history, and I have, you'll notice that he invariably favors misdirection over confrontation.
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Mission: Impossible II Reviews |
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rec.art.movies.reviews newsgroup |
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The United States may be the world's only superpower but this country is hardly invulnerable to the machinations of rogue states. Even discounting a change of plans from the leadership in Russia (who still fester about being second best and surrounded by East Europeans wild about NATO), the rogue states like Iraq, Iran and Libya may have their strategies. Those approaches center on non-nuclear terrorism such as chemical and biological warfare. Amazingly enough, deadly bugs have not been unleashed against the West, at least not to its knowledge, but that real possibility gives "Mission: Impossible 2" its one and perhaps only foundation for grounding and credibility. "M:I-2" is not a roller coaster ride but it sure is a excursion on motorcycles and choppers and for fancy cars that have been made just for the pleasure of blowing them sky-high. A John Woo ("Face/Off," "Hard Boiled," "The Young Dragons") picture, "M:I-2" will probably be as popular in the 54-year-old director's native Guangzhou as it is here in the West because, after all, who can resist a video game that surrounds its audience while bathing us in a torrent of sound from waves crashing against the shore at Sydney harbor to Hitchcockian birds flapping their wings to warn the villains of the approach of the good guy to the ever-present rat-tat-tat of machine guns that never come close to disabling the superstar?
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