Customer Rating: 
Summary: good movie, dragged too much in the middle to give it a 4
Comment: Now the movie starts off SUPER cool and will have you hooked all the way. Then we find out we are really going to be staying with Granny for a while. You will see what I mean. If this movie does not captivate you in the first 30 minutes, you should not watch moives.
So the story is about 2 cops who have to track down a SERIOUS bad dude. This guy does not play a big role but when he does show up, man is he scary. He is the type of character that will shoot someone if they look at him the wrong way, and the look in this guys face really sells it. Also the 2 main cop actors are very good, as was Granny.
Now the story does DRAG but it picks back up at the end and left me totally confused but happy becasue it was still a good all around movie.
I have the mei eh version of this and the picture quality is perfect, widescreened, and REALLY good subtitles.
Customer Rating:
Summary: two great scenes don't make a great movie.
Comment: BULLETS OVER SUMMER opens with a convenience-store action scene; this is a great scene, enjoyable and memorable. However, that action doesn't continue throughout the whole movie. BULLETS OVER SUMMER is a strange mix of action, drama, comedy, and romance. Overall, the film is also a mix of equal parts failure and success. Brian and Mike are Hong Kong undercover police, searching for "The Dragon," a ruthless killer. They use an old woman's apartment as a stakeout location. Both of them start odd romantic relationships. Brian gets together with a teenage girl who just wanders into their apartment and demands a place to sleep. Mike hooks up with a pregnant woman who works at the dry cleaning business. Meanwhile they are staying at the apartment of "granny," an old woman who likes to serve them noodles. Granny also gets into arguments with neighbors and passersby-- Granny likes to talk a lot of trash... and her trash-talking scenes are really funny.
The romance scenes drag the plot quite a bit... they aren't very believable, yet they really comprise about half the movie.
There is one great action scene at the beginning (at the convenience store) and one great action-to-drama scene near the end, when Brian and Mike finally encounter the gangster subject. In between the movie is uneven, and it's unfortunate, because the cast and director pull those 2 scenes off with style, excitement and grace.
The music varies from creepy atmospheric music like that in Memento (which works well) to ridiculous cheezy 80's guitar rock, which sounds terrible, and ruins a few scenes.
The previous reviewer likened this to Johnny To's THE MISSION and also BEAST COPS. THE MISSION is far superior to BULLETS OVER SUMMER, and it's a different type of movie altogether. BULLETS OVER SUMMER tries to appeal to everyone, with the romance, drama, comedy, and action. It doesn't have nearly the style or smooth flow of THE MISSION. B.O.S. focuses on the nice-guy clean cut cops, and their nice girlfriends, and the wacky funny granny. You rarely see the shootouts or the bad guys in dark suits, which is a shame.
BULLETS OVER SUMMER: 3/5 stars.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Bullets Over Summer DVD Review
Comment: Excellent Hong Kong movie in the same vein of such other popular titles as "The Mission" and "Beast Cops." The attention-grabbing intro in which two undercover cops break up a liquor store hold-up draws the viewer in and keeps them riveted throughout the fast-paced film, which utilizes an edgy cinematography and good character development. Two undercover cops stake out an apartment to catch a criminal across the street and along the way one of them falls in love with a pretty young woman and the other befriends a pregnant woman working at a dry cleaner's. Lots of gunfire and graphic action sequences. Highly recommended!
