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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1555713" data-attributes="member: 812">Can I get an amen?I'll agree that choosing between Hard-Boiled and Bullet in the Head can be a little hard. But BitH has got some real problems for me (the opening fight scene is plain old cheesy, and I think you could accuse it of sentimentality at times).But Face/Off -- well, not for me. Woo's Hollywood films have been a string of disappointments to me. I don't think he has the need to depict suffering that he did in those last years in Hong Kong. And he hasn't found anything new to talk about. I mean, you can very clearly see in Woo's later HK films a real terror of the impending merger with China. It's pretty obvious that Woo distrusts the ideas of policital agendas and a legal distinctions -- he puts his faith in the solidarity of heroic individuals who cleave together despite the social issues that separate them. All his HK films are about this notion, from A Better Tomorrow on. What are his Hollywood films about? I don't know, and I'm beginning to suspect he doesn't, either.That said, M:I 2 had at least three moments of pure Woo poetry. I own that DVD just for that front-wheelie-spin-shoot-the-car-into-a-rollover moment. I can watch that one (and the other spin-on-the-motorcycle-shoot-the-suburban moment) over and over again. When he's on, there's no one quite like him.I just wish he'd find a script that lets him bring something with real passion to the screen.</blockquote>

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