flawed but definitely not bad

Rating: 8/10 (19 December 2007)

John Woo made this action movie (cos that's what it is) the way he knows best: putting in a thin story line that contains his proved themes: brotherhood, betrayal, sacrifice.. and mixing it with over the top, styelized, slow motion action: gunheroes shooting of hundreds of bullets, and only get hit in the end, where (as in all his movies) always one of the two main heroes dies! This is a Bulletballet, this is a JOHN WOO movie people! Please don't judge this movie because of it's poor portrayal of reality! The whole WOII Pacific background is almost irrelevant. Furthermore, John Woo is not a character director. The acting in his movies is usually average, sometimes bad. It's the action that he knows how to show. He is an action moviemaker, i would say THE Action Moviemaker! Let's never forget that.