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Fun movie but doesn’t feel like a John Woo movie

posted 3 years ago by DAVID62627 (437)
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Was there anything in this that felt like John Woo directed it? It’s pretty anonymous

[–] sslssg (34593) 3 years ago

John Travolta being the bad guy. His character felt really similar to Face/Off

[–] avortac4 (3752) 2 years ago

He's not the bad guy in Face/Off. He plays a cop.

I mean, Castor Troy has the cop's face on him, so in a way, he does play a bad guy, but technically, he plays someone that simply borrowed the good guy's face, so his face is still the 'good guy' even though a bad guy is wearing it, so .. hm... it's kind of hard to determine whether he plays a bad guy or not, even though his face isn't one.

[–] sslssg (34593) 2 years ago

I know he plays a cop, but then he plays a nic cage villain with a travolta face. Sure Broken Arrow came first, but I felt that the characters were really similar, so in that way I connect having the same director, and not just bad acting skills.

[–] Melton (4951) a year ago

Plenty. The opening shot for starters.

Hero dives through the air blasting two pistols in slo-mo.

Ambitious and inventive action and fights with, again, lots of slo-mo.

Bold operatic style - rewatch the moment Deak ‘turns’ evil - the expressive camera move into his eyes with swelling music, and when Deak and Hale glare at each other in the subsequent fight. It’s very Woo to chuck these moments into an action movie.