Mass delusion.

Rating: Null/10 (19 April 1999)

What a pathetic film.... and I hate to say that, because friends of mine worked on this. This is the kind of film which you should be able to take a guilty pleasure in--if it had done two weeks at the box office, then went to video and escaped the notice of critics. Instead, everyone's lauding a fourth-rate B-movie with sub-par special effects, a mind-numbingly boring opening 45 minutes and fight scenes which it is hard to believe Wo-Ping Yuan choreographed (Perhaps he had a lousy DP? Did the Wachowski brothers make him choreograph the scenes blindfolded?). Go watch "Tai Chi Master" (1996), and then you'll understand what you're missing and why Keanu Reeves looks ludicrously like a 10-yr-old playing at Kung Fu. The last half of the film kept me awake because I was laughing (not with the film--at it). This is the worst script since Titanic, and--no--the special effects in this film were not good enough to excuse it from being this bad. Is everyone out there suffering from some mass delusion manufactured by the studios? Free your mind...