The most misogynistic film in recent memory.

Rating: 3/10 (24 May 2000)

The female lead, touted for the first fifteen minutes of the film as a tough action star to match Tom Cruise, soon ends up being a victim of bastardized überchivalry gone horribly awry. She gets tossed from man to man, getting no part in any of the action, offering her life for the man she loves in a sappy fit of blind devotion. Oh yes, she's saved by all the valiant men at the end, have no fear. Why is it that John Woo thinks he's making powerful moral statements when in fact he's only making a flaccid action flick? No amount of doves flying through flames in slow-motion can make this movie any more of a statement about good and evil than it is. Do yourself a favor and give this movie a miss.