Mission Impossible 2

M:i-2, John Woo gives us a toned-down,rated version of his typical fare, complete with white doves before the action sequences, excessive spinning, slow-motion and double-fisted pistol shootouts. In this second installment of the movie franchise, written by legendary screenwriter Robert Towne, Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt must battle one of his own, ex-IMF agent Sean Ambrose (Dougray Scott), who is attempting to use a disease called Chimera in a terrorist plot. To battle Ambrose, Hunt enlists help from his partner from the first movie, Luther Stickwell (Ving Rhames), and a professional thief, Nyah Nordoff-Hall (Thandie Newton), who also happens to be Ambrose's former girlfriend. While there are not as many plot twists and doublecrosses as in the first M:I movie, the action increases its intensity when Nyah, with whom Hunt has become romantically involved, becomes infected with Chimera, forcing Hunt into a race against time to find.