Vastly over-rated

Rating: 3/10 (28 May 2000)

Dumb, dumb, dumb. John Woo's patented balletic gunplay is pretty for the first five minutes, and dull as dishwater the rest of the way. I was relieved to see a mediocre 7.0 user rating for this movie.
Did this script really come from the mind of Robert Towne, the writer who gave us "Chinatown"? Now he relies on jaw-dropping, lame-o cop-outs. Over and over and over again, he had characters peel off rubber masks to reveal -- GASP! -- that they were actually someone else! Give me a break. What's he got in store for his next film? How about the old, "Maybe it was all just a dream" ploy?!
I give it 3.0.