NO. it sucks ass. Coming from a huge fan of the original. It's a STUPID movie. The plot's almost decent, but the movie's 75% action scenes, and those action scenes are really, really terrible. And more unrealistic than a John Woo movie, without the exchange of being viscerally thrilling. I can't remember the dialogue as being good at all. Without Kawada or Beat Takeshi, there's no particularly interesting characters.
Has anyone read Great Expectations and its clone, Pride & Prejudice? They're both about English people who live with their parents, fall in love, and have to leave their home and stuff. They totally have the same plot. Although I can't really be sure, because sometimes they talked and it was boring.
The worst clone is Chicago of Les Miserables. Some people went to prison, and sang a whole bunch, then they got out of prison. Same exact musical.