Watching a bit of last night, and the rest of it today before breakfast. A really under-rated film!
Thought Empire's 2-Star verdict a bit harsh: "As a Screenwriter, Luc Besson is a great DIrector!"
That view is taken completely out of context. It's a martial arts action movie, with an attempt to draw some high-art elements married to an unusual story. To compare it with cinema's best is unfair, it's not competing to be. It's just an above average action movie with some heart, some emotional depth, and all the chop-socky you would expect of anything with Jet Li in it. On the last point, the movie more than delivers.
The addition of Bob Hoskins and Morgan Freeman adds a further sense of gravitas and credibility, and are well used.
Thoroughly enjoyable, and entertaining, providing you're willing to let go your sense realism (it's far from realistic, and it's not meant to be), and take the socio-metaphoric implications with a pinch of salt for purpose of dramatic narrative over stereotypical discrimination.
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