I love serious Jackie Chan. I love myself some hammy Brosnan. I like Martin Campbell working his slow and meticulous style on a trashy paperback novel with a dash of action. It's not flashy, but it works.
There's some problematic stuff ("Torture will give us the answers we need!"), but there's also Jackie getting into a few short brawls that are compelling and painful looking (for his stunt double). It's the good stuff.
"A giant killer bat!? I wonder if there's going to be a giant rubber thing attacking people!? I sure do hope so, but I doubt it..."
*a giant rubber bat attacks people*
"HA! HA! Yessssssss"
*movie plays for another 58 minutes*
"I like the big rubber bat."
John Woo's MANHUNT is the craziest film he's made since Hard Boiled. In terms of style, it may be the Wooiest thing that ever Wooed, a throw back to the kind of films he would toss off as a lark in the 80's, distilled to its barest essence, with a script seemingly made up as they went along (in classic Hong Kong style). The fact that it looks like every other crummy digital Chinese blockbuster, and is filled with badly…
