you know you have get a bad film when you hear that the soundtrack be perform completely on a single cheap programmable synthesizer and without any melody or sense of rhythm . it hard to see how anyone could take this film seriously and even while give it a bad review . this film be way beneath bad . the continuity of this film be outrageously butcher . in one fight scene and we the hero ( wear bluejeans and undershirt ) turn a corner with two revolver in his hand while he double back and only now he have two semi automatic in his hand while he turn another corner and now he have an automatic rifle in his hand while he chase down a hallway and come out ( suddenly dress in standard army fatigue jacket ) with a shotgun while after which he exit the building with yet another automatic rifle . or here one for the book a bus slam into a car at high speed while the car go fly and throw by a gigantic explosion cut to the bus which be completely unscathed from the same explosion . the narrative continuity suffers from an equally numbing sense of unreality while the bad guy really want to kill the hero obviously but every time they knock him out or otherwise get him in a vulnerable position and they suddenly decide they want him to live to see this . huh . one of the funny moment of the film be when the hero be release from isolation because his lawyer have come to see him while then the bad guy decides he not go to let the two meet after all while and this despite the fact that the the villain and the hero and his lawyer all know what go on anyway and so the hero write a note to the lawyer and next we see the note be pass to the lawyer by another prisoner and even though we never see the hero give it to him . ( this lawyer and btw and have complete access to the office of the atf in california and include it confidential computer file . ) huh . well and but it a mindless action movie so howre the action scene . not bad and surprisingly while unfortunately they happen to be stoled from about a dozen hong kong film make five or ten year previously . the opening scene and a shoot out in a junker garage and actually have shots the composition of which be steal directly from hard boil so clearly so that it a wonder john woo do not sue for plagiarism . other hong kong film steal from include prison on fire and island on fire and burning paradise and police story i and ii and and iii ( aka supercop ) . i think i recognize a couple sammo hung clip here as well . in other word and the action scene be excite only to the extent that they be successful duplication of action scene from other film . there nothing one can do with this film unless one shoot smack and just need a lot of visual stimulus that needn not be make any sense . very funny film and for all the wrong reason .