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/movies/544318/manhunt
Review of Manhunt
by Joseph Sheldahl
Posted on April 20th, 2022
Neutral 5
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manhunt displays both the best and the worst of woo's directorial inclinations. he constantly populates the movie with these annoying little flourishes that do nothing but clutter the screen, and slow down the flow of any given scene. his choice in music and score is also as tone deaf as ever. the dramatics of any given scene are browbeaten into the audience by way of opera music and a classical score. it's... too much. this could've been a snappy chase thriller, but woo needs everything to be grand, operatic, and extremely melodramatic. the material simply doesn't support it. it crumbles under the shakespearean burden of turning a simple riff on the fugitive into a tale about fate, destiny, legacy, and honor. oh the fucking honor. like always, woo is in love with the idea of honorable assassins, honorable cops, honorable fugitives, and vile villains who kidnap homeless people to experiment on them to create a super-drug and whatnot. it's so goddamn melodramatic, that it leaps right into being absolutely cartoonish. it certainly doesn't help that these actors, natively chinese and japanese, are speaking at least 3/4ths of their lines in english. none of it sounds natural or learned, so i assume it's phonetic recitation. it makes the already unwieldy dialog sound amazingly clunky, and absolutely horrible. or, maybe it's just written that way? but yeah, melodrama. what worked in a better tomorrow and the killer, doesn't necessarily work here. however... however... john woo's signature action set pieces are on display here, right in front, in your face. while the material doesn't necessarily support the near-face/off levels of action craziness here, at least it's not painful. in glorious slow motion, characters leap through the air with two guns blazing, and for a while i don't give a shit that almost nothing else in the movie works. woo knows how to stage some of the absolute best shootouts ever committed to celluloid. if you come for the action scenes, and only for the action scenes, you're likely to enjoy this more or less. but the movie as a whole is too frustrating to recommend in earnest. the two lead actors are affable enough, but manhunt is at times far too dull to be enjoyable enough as a full-on action movie, and far too wild to be taken seriously as a dramatic thriller. it languishes somewhere in-between, content to be a frankensteinian mix of ingredients that simply don't work well together. or at least... not in these doses.


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