art of acting and action

Rating: 7/10 (2 September 2006)

excellent performance by John Travolta and Nicolas Cage... you can see how two actors can play two opposite characters (one good FBI guy and one bad guy) at the same time. you can understand who is who by just looking into their eyes. Normmally it can be expected from Nicolas Cage but also John Travolta proofs that he has a marvelous acting capability. The action scenes are wonderful by John Woo! never get bored with the long scenes until the last action scene, in fact it is a little bit long. the sub-characters also fit quite well. there are lots of moments that is stunning during the movie. the only thing there is understandable; how Sean archer swim without noticed while he was escaping from jail which in the middle of some ocean. There are also things happening strangely in the movies. You may that it will not happen in the real life and so on. But these things can be tolerated for an extra ordinary story.