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.
John Woo brought his own Heroic Bloodshed cinema to this Hollywood sequel. The Killer (1989)—white doves before gunfights, dual-wielding revolvers, slow-motion violence as ballet—becomes the template. The film is Woo's statement: Hollywood finally caught up to what Hong Kong cinema had already perfected.