The film needs to go back to the cutting room....

Rating: 4/10 (26 May 2000)

This movie is a major disappointment for me and I didn't expect much because of the PG-13 rating. My biggest problem with this film is the way it is edited. It is so quick that as soon as something eyecatching comes onto the screen it is replaced by something else in less than ONE SECOND! Woo's trademark shootouts do not make it past the PG-13 rating. Did anyone even get shot? All I saw was Tom Cruise firing round after round and a couple of people lying on the floor after the fact. This is worse than his 2 TV movies and it stinks of studio/MPAA interference.
The romantic aspects of the film are sappy at best. The notion of love at first carcrash is absolutely ludicrous. The religous icons, doves, and gregorian chants have no business being in this film. Cruise is playing a spy , not Joan of Arc.