Mission: Impossible 2 (2000)

Slow-motion doves outnumber the spies in Mission: Impossible 2. John Woo took a franchise built on clever heists and turned it into a shampoo commercial with motorcycles. Tom Cruise’s hair gets more close-ups than Thandiwe Newton, who plays the only character with an inner life and still gets treated like a piece of luggage by the plan. Dougray Scott’s villain runs on pure jealousy, and the face-mask trick gets used so often it stops being a twist and becomes a habit. The good parts are gloriously dumb: Cruise free-climbing a cliff with no rope on his day off, and a motorcycle chase where two grown men drive straight at each other like it’s a dare. The movie.guru score is a 4.2 even after $546.4 million worldwide, and that tracks. A 4.4 because the stunts are fun and everything between them drifts by like a dove feather in slow motion. $53.21 says you toss your sunglasses toward somebody this summer and wait for them to blow up.

What works: The rock-climbing opening and the motorcycle chase are pure, silly spectacle, and Thandiwe Newton brings real charm to a thin part.

What doesn’t: The plot is flimsy, the villain is just a jealous ex, and John Woo’s slow motion turns half the movie into a hair commercial.

Who it’s for: Cruise completists and people who watch action movies for the hair, the doves and the sunglasses.