best action movie

Rating: Null/10 (7 June 2004)

This was definitely the best and most intelligent action movie I've ever seen. First of all it is very captivating- my subsidiary subject is film analysis and Eastern Art History so it was double the fun to watch it in class. Furthermore it is brilliantly directed, exuberant visuals, splendid colors and nearly bloodless fight scenes which I really must praise compared to the stupid brainless violence Hollywood has to offer in its action flicks. I am very sensitive to violence but the fight scenes in this movie were elegant and stylish and not at all voyeuristic as in to show wounds or intestines or whatsoever, as Hollywood likes to do. Even though the movie had French subtitles which was fine for me I didn't quite get the plot, somehow it eludes me why Snow died 3 different deaths, I understand it's because of the different points of view. Anyway this movie made me suddenly a big fan of movies East of the Bosporus.