kinda boring, sometimes funny

Rating: 1/10 (29 November 2002)

I really didn't expect anything of this movie after seeing Mission Impossible II. So this movie was a lot better than MI:II but still not that John Woo movie that I wanted to see. The action scenes were quiet interesting as always. They hadn't that typical Woo style I expected so he kinda did sth new, what is always good. But in some scenes, I don't know if it was because of the really bad acting of Nicholas Cage, the action sequence seemed to be a bit "slapsticky", e.g. the first one where we see Cage screaming as he loses all of his comrades, kinda reminded me of Hot Shots, so quiet funny indeed. The music was used really suggestive. Always when the Amis kicked the Japs asses it went like *yeeha we finally killed them I'm feeling good* what creates a typical good/bad hollywood thing. Even that pseudo scenes with Cage giving the suffering child some analgesic didn't erase that good/bad schema. I guess that film just wanted to reach the profundity of "The thin red line" but just failed, because of the actors(I real hated this young Navajo dude), the music and the writing.