John Woo is the man

Rating: 10/10 (7 September 2012)

Michael Bay should take notes on how to make an emotionally driven action film. Who knew that you could make a very well paced Hollywood heroic bloodshed film.
John Woo films are an acquired taste. Somehow you can easily suspend your disbelief. The firefights in where everybody is diving, the slow motion, the marksmen who are bad shots, the dramatic Mexican standoffs, the use of doves, just the general over the top sequences are not mean't to portray realism but rather the intensity of the situation. And it works.
This also has to be the best body swap film. Freaky Friday and a whole bunch of other works are just... played out. This is much more refreshing, seeing it being done through medical technology instead of some contrived magic spell. Not only that but its not meant to be quirky, that is not to say the movie is without some laughs.
However there are some things that are sort of cheesy, the maniacal laughter, the whole peaches thing and the face caress. Those are minor however.
John Woo is the man. There should be to an extent more Hong Kong directors in Hollywood with a lot of creative control. And I'm sorry Bollywood fans, your directors are inept to this task (I'm only saying this because I'm of Indian descent). It's only a matter of time we see another heroic bloodshed Hollywood film.