Atrocious

Rating: 1/10 (14 February 2005)

This was the most disappointing movie ever. Such an excellent premise deserves way better than this. It's sad that Woo turned this into an action piece of (censored). I really had no idea that grenades were the equivalent of a napalm; or that extremely large caliber Japanese artillery guns have the same amount of firepower as a grenade; or that chocolate is more persuasive than bullets and violent death. I was really looking forward to this movie, and then as I saw it, I was on the verge of leaving the theater. But then I decided to at least get my money's worth and make fun of it the rest of the way. The really pathetic thing is that Tom Hanks joked about a ridiculous, stereotypical war/action movie scene of the "hero" leaping away from an explosion at the last second and he flies towards the camera with the flames behind him; Hanks was joking about this and several other things during the filming of Saving Private Ryan. The pathetic part is that Woo indeed included this exact scene....it was terrible. If you are considering this awful piece of work, do yourself a favor and do something else with those 2 hours of your life. Because if you do watch it, you'll realize you'll never get those hours back...