I have just finished watching this film and the viewing experience was akin to someone taking a crap in my TV, my god that was awful, it had all the ingredients to make a car crash of a movie, the unbelievably poor dialogue which was riddled with enough sentimentality to fill a hallmark card factory, the token pain in the ass helpless bleating woman amplified by the fact she is visually impaired and rendered even more powerless, the total mental vacation from reality, the gratuitous mindlessly repetitive shootings, John Woo managing to ensure for the duration of the film at no point the viewer ever gives a toss about any of the main characters and I'm not buying the line I started out just to kill bad guys but it's not that simple (not the actual quote), how about just not becoming an assassin in the first place, I mean are we supposed to feel sympathy for this guy after he's shot an innocent women in the face, personally I think you're a bit of an ass and maybe it's just me but an apology is just not going to cut it.
I know it's a movie and obviously artistic license is part and parcel of the genre but this picture resembles a pool of vomit by the kerbside. I actually resorted to watching it on semi fast forward when my brain had finally succumbed to being fully anaesthetised which does work with a subtitled movie, I was still able to follow the plot whilst managing to avoid sitting through the torturously stretched out scenes or subjecting my ears to that god awful pseudo tear jerker of a song. If you haven't seen this film and are considering giving it a shot make sure you're in good mood before viewing that way you'll just be upset at the end, however if you're in the wrong frame of mind to start with you'll be damn near suicide at it's conclusion.
I know it's a movie and obviously artistic license is part and parcel of the genre but this picture resembles a pool of vomit by the kerbside. I actually resorted to watching it on semi fast forward when my brain had finally succumbed to being fully anaesthetised which does work with a subtitled movie, I was still able to follow the plot whilst managing to avoid sitting through the torturously stretched out scenes or subjecting my ears to that god awful pseudo tear jerker of a song. If you haven't seen this film and are considering giving it a shot make sure you're in good mood before viewing that way you'll just be upset at the end, however if you're in the wrong frame of mind to start with you'll be damn near suicide at it's conclusion.