"Poor people get bored, too." or "You are a fucking buffalo."
Such a great showcase for Woo, even in its bastardized release form* an exercise in style and excess, with his slow-fast-slow cutting fully intact and a tonal register that has room for both devastating regret and snake-punching. There's also a tantalizing predatory shock-capital institutional-failure streak, with rich scumbags Most-Dangerous-Game-ing it up in an economically depressed New Orleans during a police strike. If Woo's American films were coming out today, they'd be heralded as the unreconstructed works of an old master.
*There are four versions I know of: the 96-minute theatrical release; the 100-minute "International" version (restoring basic cuts for violence); the 116-minute rough "Director's Cut" (Woo's preferred version, temped…