When I watched the trailer, I was totally shocked. I told myself " don't tell me this is not the movie of John Woo". From the trailer, I saw all the features from Woo's movies: Face-to-Face Stand-Off, Freeze Frames, Ballistic Shoot-outs, and even church. But it turns out the director is nobody, Troy Duffy. I am still 100% that he is just a copycat of John Woo. NY times kind of praised that he emulated Hong Kong cop film. In his interview on his last one : Boondock Saints 1, he mentioned "as far an influences, John Woo, certainly, the gun battle ballet,you can say I've been trying to do that in my own way with my films".
Back to this days, everybody is copying John Woo. It is just a style, an amazing gun-fire and brotherhood style. If you insist to bring these elements to the ancient battle, you only get "Red Cliff". It seems that Troy develop his own film by mixing more styles, like Tarantino. This moive is like cult film. Good, I'm looking forward to it.
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