Mission: Impossible II is a 2000 American action film directed by John Woo, and starring Tom Cruise, who also served as the film's producer. It is a sequel to Brian De Palma's 1996 film Mission: Impossible with Cruise reprising his role as agent Ethan Hunt of the IMF, a top-secret espionage and clandestine operation agency. The film is part of the Mission: Impossible film series. Ethan Hunt , while vacationing, is alerted by the IMF that someone has used his identity to assist Russian bio-chemical expert Dr. Vladimir Nekhorvich of Biocyte Pharmaceuticals to enter into the United States, but... purposely crashed the commercial airline en route. Nekhorvich, an old friend of Ethan, had forewarned the IMF of his arrival, planning to deliver a new virus called Chimera and its cure, Bellerophon, both of which he was forced to develop by Biocyte, into the IMF's hands. With the crash of the plane, IMF is worried that the virus is out in the open, believing that former IMF agent Sean Ambrose is behind the incident. IMF assigns Ethan to recover it.
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| Release date: | May 24, 2000 |
| Directed by: | John Woo |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 123 Minutes |
| Producer: | Tom Cruise, Paula Wagner |
| Editor: | Steven Kemper, Christian Wagner |
| Music by: | Hans Zimmer |
| Cinematography: | Jeffrey L. Kimball |
| Screenplay by: | Robert Towne, Bruce Geller |
| Estimated budget: | $125,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |