This is just my humble opinion about this particular flick.
A lot of what the first reviewer mentioned is true, but I disagree with their take on how it affected the movie. It was short, but this was a good thing. It didn't have all that mindless fluff in the middle that this genre likes to throw in there to add length. The fact that you often can't tell the two main characters apart was cool I thought. It was also a lot of little stuff; the special effects were absolutely first-rate. When jet li would jump between two overpasses or something, it didn't look as fake as such a thing usually does. It looked _real_. Aside from the lack of ammo (which is always the case), if people got injured, they _stayed_ injured. One of the characters gets a broken leg, and he doesn't forget about it in the next scene, or any scene thereafter. The last fight was a thing to behold. I think jet li played his character as he should: the strong, silent type. If I were that damn strong, I woulnd't say a whole lot, either. The soundtrack was cool, too. All-in-all I recommend it if you're a fan of the genre.
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This is just my humble opinion about this particular flick. A lot of what the first reviewer mentioned is true, but I disagree with their take on how it affected the movie. It was short, but this was a good thing. It didn't have all that mindless fluff in the middle that this genre likes to throw in there to add length. The fact that you often can't tell the two main characters apart was cool I thought. It was also a lot of little stuff; the special effects were absolutely first-rate. When jet li would jump between two overpasses or something, it didn't look as fake as such a thing usually does. It looked _real_. Aside from the lack of ammo (which is always the case), if people got injured, they _stayed_ injured. One of the characters gets a broken leg, and he doesn't forget about it in the next scene, or any scene thereafter. The last fight was a thing to behold. I think jet li played his character as he should: the strong, silent type. If I were that damn strong, I woulnd't say a whole lot, either. The soundtrack was cool, too. All-in-all I recommend it if you're a fan of the genre.