"In order to catch him, he must become him"

Rating: 8/10 (28 April 2012)

A revolutionary medical technique allows an undercover agent to take the physical appearance of a major criminal and infiltrate his organization.
The greatest trick the film pulls off is it's disguise as the most ridiculous film ever. John Woo knows this. He beholds this. Then he faces it, and changes it into an actual GOOD movie... The thing that really surprised me the most was it's acting. John Travolta and Nicholas Cage (as crazy as it seems) make this film. Their acting was phenomenal, and the fact that John Woo somehow inserted good acting into an action film is beyond me. The antics in this movie seemed a little far-fetched, quite, but it seemed like John Woo made this work. He made it work where it looked normal to us. The action, next alongside the acting, was fantastic. I've seen Mission: Impossible 2, which John Woo did a horrible job in and made every action scene far-fetched, but this film makes it realistic. There's real, gritty action that literally makes you at the edge of your seat. My favorite was the scene where the baddie's hideout got demolished. The kid has headphones on, listening to Over the Rainbow, while he watches people getting brutally shot to death. Something magical beholds itself inside this film, and for this being John Woo's first American film, he needs more like it. I mean EVERYTHING will pull you into it's far-fetched world of un-believable nonsense, but guess what? It actually, somehow, works.
The question your asking yourself right now "Should I should it?" Well I'm going to give you a split-second to think and shout out YES. But that is only if you can forgive it's preposterous-ness and enjoy it for making it work. If only you can understand that we need a little bizarre things to make things work. 8/10.