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thehefnerOh. My. Motherfucking. GOD.
Christian Bale. Sean Bean. Taye Diggs. Angus "Titus's Brother" MacFayden. Emily Watson. Sean Pewtree. In a 1984/Farenheit 451-esque negative utopia story about supressing emotions and underground movements and blah blah blah that's all well and good. But the FIGHTS. Oh my motherfucking God, the FIGHT SCENES IN THIS MOVIE...
Apparently, in this world gunplay has its own martial arts style of combat. And they milk that to the very last drop. But there're are samurai swords, and when you have Bale as a master in both of these, cutting down groups of black-leather-clad soldiers, then dueling with an evil as fuck Taye Diggs... I was on the edge of my seat, jaw dropped, contents of bowels nearly in my pants. WOW. WOW WOW WOWEE WOW WOW.
Anyone who thought that "The Matrix" revolutionized gunfights... fuck you. That was CGI child's play. Chow-Yun Fat and John Woo, the men who did with a gun what Van Gogh did with a paintbrush, you have been dethroned. This even beat out Wolverine's berzerker rage from X2 as the single most badass one-man slaughter I've seen in a movie.
I'm ranting and it's making no sense. See "Equilibrium" now. If you have any appreciation for the art of action, see this movie now. Get back to me later.
Wow.
Christian Bale. Sean Bean. Taye Diggs. Angus "Titus's Brother" MacFayden. Emily Watson. Sean Pewtree. In a 1984/Farenheit 451-esque negative utopia story about supressing emotions and underground movements and blah blah blah that's all well and good. But the FIGHTS. Oh my motherfucking God, the FIGHT SCENES IN THIS MOVIE...
Apparently, in this world gunplay has its own martial arts style of combat. And they milk that to the very last drop. But there're are samurai swords, and when you have Bale as a master in both of these, cutting down groups of black-leather-clad soldiers, then dueling with an evil as fuck Taye Diggs... I was on the edge of my seat, jaw dropped, contents of bowels nearly in my pants. WOW. WOW WOW WOWEE WOW WOW.
Anyone who thought that "The Matrix" revolutionized gunfights... fuck you. That was CGI child's play. Chow-Yun Fat and John Woo, the men who did with a gun what Van Gogh did with a paintbrush, you have been dethroned. This even beat out Wolverine's berzerker rage from X2 as the single most badass one-man slaughter I've seen in a movie.
I'm ranting and it's making no sense. See "Equilibrium" now. If you have any appreciation for the art of action, see this movie now. Get back to me later.
Wow.
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Date: 2004-07-26 04:31 pm (UTC)