boring and repetitive

Rating: 5/10 (5 September 2002)

just like in Bollywood indian flicks there must be three songs, in this John Woo war movie there must be three battles. Repetitive, always the same bullets perforating bodies, limbs flying, corpses blown apart. And when the Yanks are killing Japs, bombastic classical Hollywood-style music celebrates the imagery. If an attempt was made trying to build characters, like in MIDNIGHT CLEAR, it just was blatantly hypocritical, as shown when Chick, who is clearly a Custer fan and redskin hater, then falls in love with them after his life is saved in close combat.