To be honest, I get the hate. I mostly like it because I'm such a big fan of John Woo. It's really watered-down, cut-to-pieces John Woo, but it has enough of his signature style that I still love it. I do wish we could see some kind of director's cut one day though; supposedly it was butchered by the studio, which is why so much of it makes so little sense.
To be honest, the only reason why I'm not huge on the ones since is it just feels like they all keep recycling the same scenes and plot points over and over.
