Woo's best American film to date

Rating: Null/10 (25 June 2003)

and the one film he could never make again on this side of the globe...I've given up hope that Woo could possibly supercede or even match the cred he achieved for his brilliant HK catalog of films in the hollywood system...What really irks me is the fact that it gets bashed by quite alot of people for not being another Bad Boys/Die Hard/Terminator clone...This has to be one of the most exhilarating, stylish and most original action film made in the states so far... Whats most ironic about all this is that while a flick like this gets downplayed, films like the Matrix gets praised for its "originality" when in fact there really isnt anything from that film that hasnt been done before...I can pretty much name every movie that trash borrowed from...Even stranger the fact that it was John Woo who practically invented the whole trench coat/sunglasses/doublefisted/slowmo gun fu yet Face/Off has to suffer because its waaay too over the heads of most of these stupid, mullet headed, blockbuster video sheep....Funny thing, if this film had come out after the Matrix, many would have called it a matrix wannabe..... Simply put, if you havent seen The Killer, Hard Boiled, A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2 or even A Bullet in the Head and you think MI:2 and Broken Arrow was good, please shut up and go find something else to do cause there's no way you'd ever really be able to appreciate what Woo was trying to do-forget that-what Woo did...The man was practically breaking down the science of what truly makes a great action film...Fools were mad cause this was a clean mature gunplay action flick for grown folks and not some big explosions/car chase/XXX stuntman bullcrap....And for those who said its not believable, is any of the stuff you see in the Matrix and Die Hard believable?...C'mon now!...hell, are the guys that wrote this still working?...I hear 2Fast 2Furious is playing at the local multiplex sheep.
10/10 movie...primo flick...