Believability sacrificed for action

Rating: 2/10 (5 June 2000)

I was disappointed in this film. Not that I expect an action movie to have a lot of substance, but John Woo sacrificed plot and believability for as many explosions, fight scenes and car chases as I have ever seen in one film. I felt insulted as an audience member that I was expected to believe that the two main characters were in love within 30 seconds (of film time) of meeting one another, that someone could escape a bomb within 2 seconds of it going off without a scratch, and that after colliding mid-air with someone at a combined speed of about 200 km/hr and falling 40 feet off a cliff, Tom Cruise could walk away unscathed. Should Mr. Woo have paid a bit more attention to these sorts of indiscrepancies, the movie would have been much more enjoyable. I'm just glad I didn't have to pay for it!