One of my favorite movies ever, but I have to admit that it's beginning to lose some of its lustre by today's standards. The fight scenes - as adrenaline-rush as they may be - really seem too slow and staged to be believable (seriously, who's going to just stand there and stare at you while you throw a spinning back-kick?) but they were good watching back in the day. This is undoubtedly my favorite JCVD movie, simply because the acting (by **everyone** including JCVD) was at least a fraction better than any of his other films; also the storyline, while quite a stretch, was still believable enough. He was already a skilled and hardened fighter when he reached NYC, and (unlike some of his other movies) didn't need to learn 30 years worth of martial arts in 30 days with a little old man somewhere. Aged as it is, I still give this an "8" just for the fight scenes, the storyline, and the supporting cast. They were all great in this movie.