Mission: Impossible 2 (titled onscreen as Mission: Impossible II and abbreviated as M:i-2) is a action spy film directed by John Woo and produced by and starring Tom Cruise. It is the sequel to Mission: Impossible (1996) and the second installment in the Mission: Impossible film series. The film also stars Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton, Richard Roxburgh, John Polson, Brendan Gleeson, Rade Šerbedžija and Ving Rhames. In the film, Ethan Hunt (Cruise) teams with professional thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Newton) to find but not destroy a genetically modified disease held by rogue Impossible Missions Force (IMF) agent Sean Ambrose (Scott), who is Nordoff-Hall’s former lover.
Mission: Impossible 2 was theatrically released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on May 24, 2000, and grossed $546 million worldwide, becoming the highest-grossing film of that year. Initial reaction from critics was mixed, with praise for the action sequences and Woo‘s direction, but criticism for the characterization, deeming the film inferior to the first film. A sequel, Mission: Impossible III, was released in 2006.
Music from and Inspired by Mission: Impossible 2 is the soundtrack album for the 2000 film Mission: Impossible 2. It was certified gold for 100,000 copies shipped in Japan in August 2000.
Tracklist:
- Take a Look Around (Limp Bizkit)
- I Disappear (Metallica)
- Scum of the Earth (Rob Zombie)
- They Came In (Butthole Surfers)
- Rocket Science (The Pimps)
- Have a Cigar (Foo Fighters and Brian May)
- Mission 2000 (Chris Cornell)
- Going Down (Godsmack)
- What U Lookin’ At? (Uncle Kracker)
- Backwards (Apartment 26)
- Karma (Diffuser)
- Alone (Buckcherry)
- Immune (Tinfed)
- Not My Kinda Scene (Powderfinger)
- Carnival (Tori Amos)
- Nyah (Hans Zimmer featuring Heitor Pereira)
