Suspension of Disbelief

Rating: 9/10 (19 April 2013)

Action Guru John Woo's Big Budget Bangathon featuring a lot of Mayhem and Fun. Travolta and Cage Overact their Butts/Off. Very Entertaining. Suspension of Disbelief is a Tag that is attached to all Movies. Without it Nothing Works. These Things on the Screen are not really happening. The Plot, Concepts, Portrayals are all...FICTION.
So given that you are Suspending Your Disbelief, this has to be one of the most Engaging Stories ever to Inhabit an Over the Top Action Movie with Unbelievable Gun-Play and Comic-Book Characters in a setting of Another Place and Another Time. John Woo is a Master of Exciting Explosions and Pulsating Pandemonium.
Here there is quite a Touching Back Story of Love lost and two Families Living Opposite Lives. "The eternal struggle of Good vs Evil", says the bad guy. You Bet, but it is all Laid Out in such Style and Confidence that it is Amazing to Watch.
This is an Example of Excellence in a Genre that is Ridiculously Riddled with Bullets but hardly ever so Quintessential. This is one that all Movies of this Type could Aspire. For it is one of the Best and Succeeds in something that most of this Type Fail to Accomplish. It has as much Heart as it does Heart Pounding Excitement.