Mission: Impossible II (2000)

Most people think so. 81% of audiences gave it a thumbs up, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 58%, but audiences disagreed.

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude. Wikipedia ↗

Mission: Impossible II is a 2000 American action spy film directed by John Woo, the second installment. Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, tasked with stopping a former IMF agent turned terrorist, played by Dougray Scott, from releasing a deadly virus called Chimera and its cure on the global market. Ethan recruits Nyah Nordoff-Hall, a professional thief played by Thandiwe Newton, who happens to be the villain's ex-girlfriend, creating a love triangle that drives the plot.

John Woo brought his signature Hong Kong action cinema style — slow-motion gunfights, motorcycle chases, dove imagery, and balletic violence — to the biggest canvas of his career. The climactic motorcycle joust and cliff-face rock climbing (performed by Cruise without a stunt double) were spectacular, though the film's emphasis on style over substance divided audiences. Mission: Impossible II earned $546 million worldwide, the highest-grossing film of 2000.