A Better Tomorrow (1986) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Ying hung boon sik (A Better Tomorrow)
Year
1986
Running time
95 min.
Country
Hong Kong
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Genre
Action. Thriller | Crime. Yakuza & Triad. Cult movie
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Synopsis
A death-hardened cop battles the Hong Kong underworld, including his own brother who joins the bad guys. This progenitor of Woos "heroic violence" films introduces the theme of loyalties between men shattered by a violent world that forces them apart. Only through sacrifice can honor be attained.
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- "Action for its own sake may not have been the film's intended point, but it'll do."
- "Woo's direction is clean and direct, with a clarity of purpose behind every scene that makes each wrenching development seem inevitable. It's strong stuff."
- "The climactic gun battle has to be one of the most ridiculously exhilarating — or exhilaratingly ridiculous — sequences of its kind."
- "Floridly romantic and serenely excessive (men shot a dozen times don't die, guns never need reloading), it has the bravado of a minor classic"
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