Mission: Impossible II

Mission: Impossible II
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	John Woo
Produced by	Tom Cruise Paula Wagner
Screenplay by	Robert Towne
Story by	Ronald D. Moore Brannon Braga
Based on	Mission Impossible by Bruce Geller
Starring	Tom Cruise Dougray Scott Thandie Newton Ving Rhames Richard Roxburgh
Music by	Hans Zimmer Lalo Schifrin (main theme)
Cinematography	Jeffrey L. Kimball
Edited by	Christian Wagner Steven Kemper Stuart Baird Tony Ciccone
Production company	Cruise/Wagner Munich Film Partners & Company MI2 Productions
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release dates	May 24, 2000
Running time	123 minutes
Country	United States Australia
Language	English
Budget	$125 million[1]
Box office	$546,388,105

Mission: Impossible II (marketed as M:I-2 and in the new Blu-ray release, Mission: Impossible 2) is a 2000 Americanaction spy film directed by John Woo and starring Tom Cruise, who also served as the film's producer. It is the sequel to Brian De Palma's 1996 film Mission: Impossible and has Cruise reprising his role as agent Ethan Hunt of the IMF, a top-secret espionage and clandestine operation agency. The film is the second installment of the Mission: Impossiblefilm series and was followed by Mission: Impossible III (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) andMission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015) .

The film has strong thematic similarities with Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 spy thriller Notorious.^[2]