Nice Blend of Action Styles

Rating: Null/10 (19 October 2002)

A very interesting blend between the styles and strengths of Corey Yuen and Luc Besson. This movie combines more different types of action than you would expect. A Bond movie will have the great chase scenes, a John Woo film will have great gun work, and a Jackie Chan film will have great fight choreography and physical action. This movie does it all very well. You'd expect the great fighting from Corey Yuen, and you'd expect the stylistic action from Luc Besson, but it really comes together well, an excellent bridge between Hong Kong and Hollywood, emerging from Europe. Thoroughly enjoyable, although the ending seems somewhat flat. Some of the action work was astounding, all of it was good. If you are an action afficionado, see it big screen. I hope the DVD will have plenty of extras to show how the action scenes were done.
-Rick