This was not a spy movie. This was a trashy romance novel turned into a movie. Boy met girl; boy slept with girl; boy and girl had an argument. All within twelve hours of knowing each other. Then the love competition showed up. Girl sacrificed herself to resolve the love triangle.
In every trash romance novel, the boy and the girl needed jobs. They couldn't be lovesick all the time; people wouldn't read that. So this movie made the boy a spy and the girl a thief.
Math Teacher and I had fun identifying all the John Woo tropes. Slow-motion. Close-up to faces. Walking through fire. Flipping through air. Double guns. And pigeons! Lots and lots of pigeons!
I didn't realize how much I was influenced by this movie. All the good guys wore cool sunglasses; all the bad guys wore ugly sunglasses. This notion had carried into my own trashy romance novels! 😎