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The penthouse shootout was ridiculous


The FBI just starts shooting into the penthouse, without giving anyone a chance to surrender, or knowing whether or not there were innocent people there. I know Castor is a bad guy, but shouldn't the other FBI agents have said "isn't this kinda murder?" Also, that means the FBI agents who were killed were killed in self defence.

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I don't know if you noticed, this movie IS ridiculous.

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You apparently don't know the history of the fbi.

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In his 2023 memoir, co-producer Terence Chang wrote: "Paramount didn’t know how to react for a while and insisted that John Woo cut this section, but he refused no matter what. As a result, during the test screening, the audience responded extremely well to the handling of this scene, so it was retained."

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It’s a John Woo 90’s action flick. Over the top action stuff was expected in those days.

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