See it. See it now. - the movie Bonds have been trying to be.

Rating: 10/10 (22 June 2000)

Caveat: I love John Woo's films. And this is definitely a John Woo film. Woo can do more with fewer words than any director I know, and in Cruise, Scott, and Newton, much of his cast do a marvelous job of acting without having to speak. Not that the script itself is anything shabby - cute, at times witty. Good for more than enough chuckles.
This movie has cool, it has style, and what's more, there's an actual heart to it. Cruise's Hunt suffers - there is doubt in what he's doing, and a lack of faith that portrays itself much more in what he doesn't say, and how he doesn't, than what he does. This is what Bond movies should have been for a while now.