i love this movie . this be heaven for an action movie fan . from start to finish and bullet fly everywhere and body drop everywhere and nobody ever reloads and and there be almost no plot . of course this wouldn not work except the action scenes that chew up the majority of the screen time be so brilliantly choreograph and film that you forget all about silly thing like plot and realism . john woo be a genius and and this film show the true extent of that . hollywood action director think that someone walk into a room and shoot someone else be a throwaway scene that barely worth the time to capture on film . they only give their attention to the big special effect scene . john woo see the potential in every scene and film to bring the maximum amount of excitement from everything .