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An exceptional thriller, engaging characters, story & pacing. Chow Yun fat is simply magnetic. This won him the Golden Horse award for best actor & launched him from A popular tv star to Box Office gold superstar sensation. Director John woo (also won The Golden Horse award for Best Director) changed the acton cinema game here with mesmerizing shootout choreography & bewilderingly perfect editing. His technique improved with subsequent movies but this was the first in the 'Heroic Bloodshed' genre. It's fantastic...check it out then watch ABT2, The Killer, Bullet in the head, Hard Boiled, & many others. Hard Target (uncensored version) & Face Off were great, but his HK movies between 1986-1992 was A prime visionary at the top of his game. Behold the greatest exponent of gunfights & explosions cinema from the Maestro himself John Woo. This one started it all... bravo.Read full review
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I love this movie. Ever since I first watched this type of film on VHS tape I've been hooked on the Hong Kong john woo films. They're all guns blazing. Brilliant.
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The ultimate DVD presentation of the ultimate Hong Kong gangster action movie! A simple but compelling tale of two brothers - Ho Tse Sung (Ti Lung), a successful counterfeiter, and Kit Sung (Leslie Cheung), a rookie graduate of the Hong Kong Police Academy - the plot focuses on Woo's favourite themes of honour, brotherhood and loyalty. Incarcerated after a deal goes wrong, on his release from prison Ho decides it is time to go straight. However, he is coerced back into a life of crime by his former associates and his need to help his best friend and former right-hand man Mark (Chow Yun-Fat), who has fallen on hard times. Ho is also attempting to reconcile his relationship with his policeman brother, who blames him for the death of their father and is coming under increasing pressure from his superiors because of his familial links to organised crime. A series of heists, double-crosses and shoot-outs lead to a climactic battle in which two men find themselves fighting for their lives and their honour...Read full review
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