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Greg Mueller
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Posts: 1687
From: Port Gamble, WA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 07-05-2002 09:54 AM

Ho-Hum

......I'm trying to think of what I liked....oh yah.
I like that they had defined bad guys and good guys. They didn't try to show any of the Japs as human or "having a story". It's refreshing to see things defined this way here in the days of PC. In that respect it reminded me of John Wayne's war films. You know who's good and you know who's bad.
Otherwise...
They must of had a great budget for fake blood. Boy it really flew. Lots of gratuitous violence.
I think this is about the thinnest story I've seen in a while.

Laughable...
CGI airplanes and bombs. There was one seen where 4 or 5 japs are attacking, and a guy (I can't remember who) shoots 4 times and 5 guys fall down. (John Wayne vs the Indians?) The hula girls, who were on screen for maybe 1 or 2 seconds in the background, got screen credits at the end. When my wife saw that she said "There were Hula girls?"

Spend your money somewhere else

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Mike Schindler
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1039
From: Oak Park, IL, USA
Registered: Jun 2002

posted 07-05-2002 10:46 AM

Mild Spoilers

I liked this picture. Particularly, I liked how even though the "Good Guys" were "good", some of them, including Nicolas Cage, were flawed to the point of being unlikable at the beginning of the film, and grew over the course of time. This isn't anything that's groundbreaking, but I thought that it was pretty well done.

I also liked how this was undeniably a John Woo film. There's one moment where a Japanese soldier and an American soldier find themselves pointing their rifles at each others heads. The audience which I was with actually applauded when this happened.

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Dennis Benjamin
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1445
From: Denton, MD
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 07-07-2002 11:56 AM

I am a huge John Woo fan. I *liked* this one - didn't love it- but liked it. I think he does better with smaller budgets and better story lines.He and Chow-Yun-Fat need to work together again and get Tsui Hark to produce - that would be a great film.

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