Movie Description When a tough police officer's (Chow Yun-Fat) partner is brutally murdered, he joins forces with another loose-cannon cop (Tony Leung) to exact his own bloody revenge on the gun-smuggling gangsters responsible for his friend's death. A lot of action, guns, and violence, all masterfully rendered by action maestro John Woo (THE KILLER, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 2). This is the last film the director made in his native Hong Kong before emigrating to the United States.
| Credits | | Cast: | Anthony Wong, Benny Lam, Kwan Hoi Sang, Meng Lo, Ng Shui-Tung |
Notes Writer/director Quentin Tarantino refers to John Woo as "the most exciting director to emerge in action cinema since Sergio Leone." And VARIETY calls the Hong Kong director "the Mozart of Mayhem."
The Voyager/Criterion CAV laserdisc is subtitled with a dubbed version on a separate analog track.
Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Copyright 1992 Golden Princess Film Production Ltd.
Available to buy in the UK (widescreen version).
Editorial Reviews "...[Woo is] a very brisk, talented director with a gift for the flashy effect and the bizarre confrontation..." New York Times - p.C12 - Vincent Canby (06/18/1993)
"...From Hong Kong with a bullet, an action classic..." Premiere - p.115 - Tom Russo (09/01/1994)
"...Three of the greatest shootouts ever punctuate John Woo's instant cop classic from Hong Kong..." USA Today - Mike Clark (02/17/1995)
"...All the Woo trademarks are present and correct..." Total Film - Andy Lowe (07/01/2000)
"...The climactic attack on the hospital is as eye-popping as any Busby Berkeley production number..." Entertainment Weekly - Ty Burr (01/11/2002)
"John Woo's 1992 cop thriller was his last Hong Kong movie, and it's a self-conscious career peak." Uncut - Tom Charity (12/01/2004)
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