I guess Zimmer had a great time working with her on Gladiator that he asked her to stay on for M:I-2. One name that stuck out was Lisa Gerrard. In any case, the quality of work seemed to drop from those two previous films, to M:I-2.įirst off, he assembled the "Band" togethera group of eleven players that performed the bulk of the score. But without talking to him, we might never know. So what happened with M:I-2? Did Zimmer bite off more than he could chew? Possibly. With over two hours of music, the score was no doubt something that took a while to do. He also worked on Gladiator for Ridley Scott, with Lisa Gerrard. But he did a lot of work on the songs and score, and that takes time and energy. He worked on The Road to El Dorado for DreamWorks, and it tanked. I knew that Zimmer had worked with Woo before ( Broken Arrow) and I was sure that if they could do for M:I-2 what they had done on Broken Arrow, it would definitely be a fun score.īut as it happened, Zimmer had a very busy year. Even Alan Silvestri did a great job with his rendition of the M:I theme, heard in the trailers for the first film. Sure, I thought Danny Elfman did a great job with the first film, but this was a different film, and a different composer's style could lend a fresh take on the classic Lalo Shifrin theme. When I heard that Zimmer was going to be scoring the film, I was nothing short of enthused. One of those elements was the score, by veteran composer Hans Zimmer. More "James Bond" than "Mission: Impossible," the film left a few things to be desired. I was disappointed because I thought the screenplay was just as bad as the first film (both were written by Robert Towne), and as a fan of the television show, I had to wonder why the idea of the team and covert operations went out the window in favor of a one-man (Tom Cruise) army blowing things up left and right in plain sight. Not because of the action sequences, or even the acting (though it wasn't anything great). While the trailers looked greatand I'm a huge John Woo fanI have to say that I was pretty disappointed by Mission Impossible 2. How does one spell disappointment? M:I-2.