Synopsis: Shoot 'em up video game
Director: John Woo
Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Chiu Wai Leung, Teresa Mo, Anthony Wong
Date: 1993
How viewed: Rented from Lovefilm
Rating: 2/5
David Meyer says:
John Woo creates the most poetic, lyrical, technologically impossible, rhythmic, orgasmic, skillfully edited, widely imitated action sequences in the history of filmmaking.
John Woo creates the most poetic, lyrical, technologically impossible, rhythmic, orgasmic, skillfully edited, widely imitated action sequences in the history of filmmaking.
I say:
Guns, fast cars, kung fu, origami, jazz, the Hong Kong skyline, neon, yachts, sharp suits, and explosions - what more could you possibly want? Well, some sort of coherent story line would help! Otherwise this is just 2 triad gun-smuggling gangs and the police all shooting each other (and innocent passers by) with guns that rarely need reloading, and it is relentless - the body count runs into the hundreds, all of whom die beautifully choreographed deaths flying through the air in slow motion - unless of course they are the heroes who somehow avoid the hail of bullets fired straight at them! I know that, in its day, it was revolutionary, and pre-dates all the current video massacres and action films, but that doesn't save it from being an extremely boring comic book film. 
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