I wish I had the guts to burn my eyes out with a cigarette.

Rating: 1/10 (8 November 2002)

I will never forget this experience. Not only was this a horrible movie, but I think it was the worst movie I've ever seen (yep, I'm serious.) I'm going to invest the next several years of my life designing a giant megaphone so I can move down to Los Angeles, park outside the houses of the people responsible for this movie and curse them soundly. Geez.
For those military buffs out there, you'll laugh yourself stupid watching this movie. There were some military advisors credited (inexplicably) but Mr. Woo obviously didn't listen to them. This movie is one of the most unrealistic war movies ever made.
To digress a bit, I always wonder why it is Hollywood can blow $50 or $100 million on such garbage. Don't they have people around to enforce some basic taste?
However, I guess it's my fault for renting it (I knew it was going to be bad, but I was feeling particularly masochistic). First of all, John Woo, secondly Nic Cage. What was I thinking? Now, anyone have a cigarette?