Every Highest Grossing Film Since 2000 Ranked

18. Mission Impossible II

Year: 2000

Rest Of The Top Ten:

Gladiator, Cast Away, What Women Want, Dinosaur, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Meet the Parents, The Perfect Storm, X-Men and What Lies Beneath.

So, the countdown begins at, interestingly enough, the first year of the century. So, the year 2000's biggest hit was... Mission Impossible II. Seriously? This was the highest-grossing film of 2000? What a terrible year that must have been!

Anyway, did MI2 deserve to be the year's biggest hit? Absolutely, 100% no.

After all, why should people pay their hard-earned money to see a plot-less film that consists entirely of Tom Cruise doing bland stunts? Sure, you can have a bit of fun watching the stunts, but mostly you'll just be waiting for something meaningful to occur. Spoiler alert: nothing meaningful does. This truly is a film which says and does absolutely nothing.

Not so much a bomb as a flaming car wreck flying off the edge of a cliff, MI2 will have been an unsatisfying waste of money for all but the least-demanding film-goers. Out of the five Mission Impossible films to date this is easily the weakest and a terrible waste of director John Woo's talents.