Liked it in spite of myself

Rating: Null/10 (26 February 2003)

I'm no fan of John Woo or the "timely somersault" action genre, but this movie is hilarious. It's Woo doing a parody of/hommage to himself with a squillion-dollar big-studio budget. I've seen the movie twice, once at the theater and once on DVD, and both times was left in awe of Woo's mastery of pace and timing, and the cheerful presumptuousness with which he shoves this absurd movie in our faces. If nothing else, it's about ten times more watchable than MI-1.