"I could eat a peach for hours."

Rating: 9/10 (15 May 2010)

Awesome. Nicolas Cage does what he usually does (i.e. act completely insane) while John Travolta does his best Nicolas Cage impression (and it's not a bad one, either!). I just have one question: why is it that every American movie that John Woo made after this so monumentally sucks? Sure, this is not exactly a great movie, but it still has moments of brilliance recalling his masterpieces like The Killer and A Better Tomorrow. In many ways this is a perfect distillation of the major Woo themes for American audiences: brotherhood, duality, heroic bloodshed, the man of action who must choose between his job and his love, lots and lots of doves, etc. A Woo primer, if you will.
Admittedly guys like Nicolas Cage and John Travolta don't flow as naturally into the Woo-niverse (see what I did there?) as the great Chow Yun-Fat does, but it sure is fun to see them constantly one-upping each other in the OTT game. Say what you will about this film: it may not be great art, but it is great entertainment made by a great filmmaker (who just happened to make a lot of terrible movies after this).