John Woo's final cut of the film clocked in at 3-1/2 hours. The studio balked at this length and told him that the final length could not exceed 120 min. This could explain why there are so many plot holes and continuity errors in the theatrical cut.
did the 3-1/2 hour version ever get released, i think that if this did get released this movie would go up to a 7 maybe even an 8.
if anyone has any info on this version let me know,
Bump. Yeah, I´d like to know as well...
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It's a fabled cut of the film seemingly nobody has ever seen... I wish they'd release the director's cut, but sadly I don't think it'll happen now that M:I II is so old (going on nine years already...).
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Wow, bummer, I would pay good money to see the full 3 and a half hour feature.
sharePlot holes and continuity errors in the film? I'm not aware of any; I thought the movie was clear.
I'm a fan of the movie - but even I'm not interested in a 3 and a half hour cut. I don't know the backstory, but it seems highly implausible that Woo really thought a 3 and a half hour cut of the film would be accepted and embraced. It's a summer action blockbuster. Even 2 hours 30 minutes is severely pushing the limits.
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Why doesn't anyone read the script: http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Mission-Impossible-II.html
If the plot elements exist, then you should find them there... my guess is that if the 260 minute cut exists, it owes a lot of its run-time to John Woo's slow-motion.
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That would be 210 minutes.
And no, a cut like that would never be released.
I would settle for a 160 minute cut.
Weird thing is that Troy was a long movie in theaters, it was R rated and very succesful.
They allowed the director to make a director's cut running over 3 hours.
I have no idea why Paramount is so stubborn about it.
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The script fills up those badly cut up scenes and plotholes. I quite like there another deleted scene after the Biocyte stuff and a extended final exchange between Hopkins and Cruise. So I hope we see the blu ray cut soon...
I guess CNN didn't like being mentioned a dozen times a la Goldeneye. Ha Ambrose even blew up that Safehouse!
You gotta stay in your seats until the Sulaco reaches the terminal!
Seem to recall seizing pictures in 1999 with Tom filming s fight scene at the docks.
shareThis is by far the first movie that was ruined by heavy editing.
I would like to see a longer cut, because there was a bunch of holes in the story.
They released Donner cut of Superman 2 decades later, so why not MI 2?
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Waterworld was originally around 3 hours long, and 1 hour were removed which made it get loads of plot holes. The plot holes in the movie is not holes in the 3 hour version.
I have seen the longest version of Waterworld, and its shown how they mass produce cigarettes and alot of other plot holes.
The almost new Snowpiercer movie was cutted 20 mins, because Americans wouldn't understand several parts of the movie. It was cutted down to a brainless action movie for the Americans.
What worse, is that EU also got the crappy version of the movie thanks to USA. :(
There was a VHS copy, a workprint , floating around in 2000 that has a running time of about 2hrs 43min. It had the timer and everything. It was without the Kamera intro and started in Utah of Cruise climbing. I can't remember the added footage but like one of the posted commented Antony Hopkins had a bigger part. The copy I watched was of poor quality and DVDs just made it big and I upgraded to a DVD player.
The fun part is that one of the original copies was said to be stolen from actor producer Michael Doven. There was a party at his house in BelAir and it was stolen from there, his screening room.
The copy I watched was of poor quality and DVDs just made it big and I upgraded to a DVD player.
I never owned it, but borrowed it to watch with my friends! I had it at my house for quite some time as I remember. I had the DVD and the workprint at the same time. My friend who had obtained the copy, I contacted her on Facebook, but she had absolutely no idea what I was talking about. Apparently 15 years is too long for somebody. However it did exist but I'm not sure if its digital.
shareTalk about lost media right here that tape exists oh...........:(
You gotta stay in your seats until the Sulaco reaches the terminal!
Watching this film again now, sadly I don't think making it LONGER would have helped - the film felt over-long and boring at 120min let alone 3+ HOURS!
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Any chance you or your friend still have a copy?
shareDo you still have a copy of the workprint?
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