10 Movies That Sold You A Lie

8. Anthony Hopkins Is Only A Minor Character In Mission: Impossible II

The Grey Liam Neeson
Paramount

Mission: Impossible II is very much a product of its time. Watching the movie now is like peering into a turn-of-the-millennium time capsule; Tom Cruise with the floppiest of floppy hair riding a motorcycle wearing sunglasses and a leather jacket, performing martial arts in slow-motion while Limp Bizkit blares in the background. It was a strange time for the action movie.

From watching the trailers you could be forgiven for assuming that Anthony Hopkins plays a key role in the story as he featured prominently in the marketing, dishing out wizened exposition to super-spy Ethan Hunt. Except that really wasn't the case at all.

Even though he had more dialogue in the movie's promo spots than anybody else, the veteran Academy Award winner barely factors into the narrative at all, with his role being that of the guy who randomly turns up to advance the plot and not much else.

Stranger still, Hopkins isn't even listed in the credits. If they were attempting to keep his role under wraps until the movie came out, then the guy who cuts the trailers together didn't get the memo.

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