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Movies that feel likeMission: Impossible II (2000)

With computer genius Luther Stickell at his side and a beautiful thief on his mind, agent Ethan Hunt races across Australia and Spain to stop a former IMF agent from unleashing a genetically engineered biological weapon called Chimera. This mission, should Hunt choose to accept it, plunges him into the center of an international crisis of terrifying magnitude.

If you loved Mission: Impossible II, the closest films we have are Quantum of Solace (2008), Pathaan (2023) and The Rock (1996). All three share Mission: Impossible II's epic and kinetic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Grey (2012).

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Looking for the series itself? Also in this series: Mission: Impossible (1996) · Mission: Impossible III (2006) · Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011) · Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) · Mission: Impossible - Fallout (2018) · Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One (2023)

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Quantum of Solace
2008 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 63%★ 6.5adventure · action · thrillerPrime VideoParamount+

A globe-hopping agent races an underground conspiracy before it detonates

The difference: Runs colder and leaner than Woo's doves-and-slow-motion bravado

Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.

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Pathaan
2023 · dir. Siddharth Anand
🍅 85%★ 5.8action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

A soldier presumed dead returns to finish a mission only he can complete

The difference: Bollywood spectacle over Woo's Hollywood gloss, with subtitles to match

A soldier caught by enemies and presumed dead comes back to complete his mission, accompanied by old companions and foes.

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The Rock
1996 · dir. Michael Bay
🍅 76%★ 7.4action · adventure · thrillerPeacock

Epic where it counts, kinetic underneath

When vengeful General Francis X. Hummel seizes control of Alcatraz Island and threatens to launch missiles loaded with deadly chemical weapons into San Francisco, only a young FBI chemical weapons expert and notorious Federal prisoner have the skills to penetrate the impregnable island fortress and take him down.

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The Grey
2012 · dir. Joe Carnahan
🍅 80%★ 6.7action · adventure · thrillerNetflix

Tense adventure, and it commits to that

After their plane crashes in Alaska, six oil workers are led by a skilled huntsman to survival, but a pack of merciless wolves haunts their every step.

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Ashfall
2019 · dir. Kim Byung-seo
🍅 70%★ 6.2action · adventure · thrillerPrime Video

Action built on scale, twice over

A group of unlikely heroes from across the Korean peninsula try to save the day after a volcano erupts on the mythical and majestic Baekdu Mountain.

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The Wolf's Call
2019 · dir. Antonin Baudry
★ 6.9thriller · action · adventurePrime Video

Kinetic thriller in both cases

Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.

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The Expendables
2010 · dir. Sylvester Stallone
🍅 41%★ 6.4thriller · adventure · action

A hired team storms a tropical stronghold against overwhelming odds

The difference: Trades Hunt's solo derring-do for a whole crew of grizzled mercenaries

Barney Ross leads a band of highly skilled mercenaries including knife enthusiast Lee Christmas, a martial arts expert Yin Yang, heavy weapons specialist Hale Caesar, demolitionist Toll Road, and a loose-cannon sniper Gunner Jensen. When the group is commissioned by the mysterious Mr. Church to assassinate the dictator of a small South American island, Barney and Lee visit the remote locale to scout out their opposition and discover the true nature of the conflict engulfing the city.

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Skyscraper
2018 · dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber
🍅 48%★ 5.8action · thriller · adventureRent or buy

A framed operative fights to save the people he loves from a rigged trap

The difference: Swaps globe-hopping espionage for one single burning tower

Framed and on the run, a former FBI agent must save his family from a blazing fire in the world's tallest building.

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The Three Musketeers
2011 · dir. Paul W. S. Anderson
🍅 27%★ 5.7adventure · action · thrillerPrime Video

Both lean on tension more than on adventure

The hot-headed young D'Artagnan along with three former legendary but now down on their luck Musketeers must unite and defeat a beautiful double agent and her villainous employer from seizing the French throne and engulfing Europe in war.

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Anna
2019 · dir. Luc Besson
🍅 33%★ 6.7action · adventure · thriller

A striking operative hides lethal skill behind a carefully built cover

The difference: Centers a female assassin's rise rather than Hunt's globe-trotting team

Beneath Anna Poliatova's striking beauty lies a secret that will unleash her indelible strength and skill to become one of the world's most feared government assassins.

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The King's Man
2021 · dir. Matthew Vaughn
🍅 41%★ 6.3action · adventure · thrillerHulu

Both keep coming back to the same thing: spy

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

As a collection of history's worst tyrants and criminal masterminds gather to plot a war to wipe out millions, one man must race against time to stop them.

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London Has Fallen
2016 · dir. Babak Najafi
🍅 28%★ 5.9action · adventure · thriller

Action with a pulse of scale, in both cases

In London for the Prime Minister's funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders.

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