Oh Woo, Boo Hoo

Rating: 4/10 (4 September 2010)

Woo, a highly touted director of action sequences, however his abilities to create an entire film leaves a lot to be desired. In fact the entire movie seems to be more concerned with stunts and fighting as opposed to story telling and interesting characters. Without comparing this film to MI1, MI2 lacks character development, has no tension or suspense, and is a complete bore to watch. I blame most of this on Woo's self indulgent action "poetry". Doves flying in the middle of a fight, repeated slow-mo abuse, boring gun battles, the list goes on. Gladly it seems that Woo has slowed down production of his action set pieces referred to as films. Tarantino can watch this stuff and think "Michaelangelo", I watched MI2 and thought "Thomas Kinkade".