Lame

Rating: 3/10 (26 May 2000)

Cut out all the slo-mo bicycle kicks and this movie is about 45 minutes long. Just kidding, but John Woo needs to come up with something new. Same old slo-mo-spinning-gun draws and fight scenes. The movie was tolerable until the last 15 or 20 minutes, which left me with a bad taste. Would have made an ok James Bond movie, but didn't fit with the MI genre. Too much shooting, exploding and none of the teamwork and twists that marked the series. And enough of the rubber mask effects, it got old in the first movie. And speaking of the first movie, I would rather have a convoluted, hole-filled plot than this plot built around action sequences. Recommendation - leave when the motorcycle chase starts.