So bad it made me queasy

Rating: 1/10 (2 May 2007)

If you possess more brain cells than you do teeth and you've already seen this movie, I don't need to remind you about the cliché-ridden plot, the continuity errors, the implausibility, the amazingly high style-over-substance quotient and the general stink of cheese that infects the whole thing like a virus. I'd just like to add a couple of comments about the direction of John Woo, who is of course chiefly responsible for this unfortunate mess. Hope you're listening Mr Woo...
a) People's hair blowing in the wind is at best a mildly diverting spectacle, not the basis for the plot of an entire movie. Or indeed an entire career.
b) The slow-motion button should only be pressed in an emergency. If you carry on pressing it every thirty seconds it's gonna break. Or someone's gonna break your finger.
c) About the bird thing. We get it already. Knock it off.
d) All those close-ups of buff guys dressed in black fighting. Maybe you should go ahead and open a gay funeral parlor, instead of just dreaming about it. You'd be happier, and I'd be happier.
That's all.