John Woo must be stopped!!!

Rating: 1/10 (10 June 2000)

I am a film fan. I am the type who will sit through anything...whether it is good, bad or ugly. I never leave a theater or turn off a video until I've watched the entire film. I figure that I've invested my time in a film and that I should stick it out until the bitter end. In 30 years of watching movies, I never, NEVER walked out of a theater...that is, until I went to see MI-2.
MI-2 is, by far, the worst film ever made. As soon as I saw "Directed by John Woo", I knew that I was in for something bad. This movie is shockingly bad. Woo cut his teeth in the Hong Kong Cinema making ultra-violent films like Hard Boiled and The Killer. His films in Hong Kong and in America are riddled with ridiculous caricatures, cliche-ridden dialogue and mind-numbing camera tricks. I believe he is in love with slow motion. As a matter of fact, when I saw Woo's name in the credits, I decided to count the number of times he used slow motion...after all, the movie itself wouldn't be worth watching. By the time I walked out (I COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE!!!), which was during the fight scene that seemed to last for about 45 minutes, I counted 48 different uses of slow motion. Watch the cable run out of the winch...in slow motion! Watch Tom Cruise walk...in slow motion!! Watch the bad guys shoot a million rounds of ammo and hit nothing...in slow motion!!!
The problem is that, because the movie has done so well at the box office, we're going to get years of this type of garbage. That is why John Woo must be stopped!!!
Did I mention this was the worst film ever made???