A good movie yes a GREAT movie? Absolutely NOT...

Rating: 1/10 (19 January 2001)

As an avid moviegoer I cannot understand the life of me the fascination with this movie. It lacks so much and I can't believe people fail to see it. The movie has got action... great action but does it have plot? No. Does it have characterization?? No. Is it worthy a 9.0 rating? Absolutely not.
Like I stated before, I thought the action scenes were really exciting, the un-realistic ness of it seemed a little silly at first but I soon got used to it and thought it was well done and cool. But the action was basically the only thing I thought was fantastic about the film.
I really felt the film lacked in characterization and plot, it also dragged on really long and had plenty of useless scenes. For example the flashback scene in the desert could have been cut down to a mere 10 mins instead of the 20 or so mins it ended up to be. There were allot of pointless scenes that dragged out the movie, but it's the plot in general that suffered, there really wasn't a point to it all but based on the background of the story I felt there could have been had they focused more on the characters.
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I never liked Jen's character. I thought she was really a bitch for lack of better words and at the end of the film her switch over to the good guys side seemed not only too predictable but ill timed. When Chow Yun Fat's character died I really didn't care or feel any emotional connection to him as all the scenes of Jen running around here and there should have been replaced with scenes to build on his character.
I also didn't like the way the whole Jade Fox thing was resolved, the movie sort of drifted from that plot with all the Jen scenes especially that much too long desert flashback when we came back to the main plot I was a little confused. The story never really went anywhere and them the movie just ended. It wasn't well thought out plot but the backstory had huge potential.
Based on all this I'd have to give it a thumbs down. I would NOT recommend it and I don't understand why people seem to think it's such a great film. Iin a rating out of 10 I'd only have to give it about a 5.