Friday, 19 December 2014

A bloody tomorrow

A Better Tomorrow (1986)

Directed by John Woo this film stars Ti Lung, Leslie Cheing and Chow Yun-Fat. One brother and his best friend work for the triads while the younger brother becomes a policeman, guess how things turn out.

The plot of this film is fairly simple and has some nods to film noir as well as Jean-Pierre Melville. Pretty much the story does it's job and holds together but that is never what you come to a John Woo film for. What you want from this film is the director's trademark action sequences and while this is one of his earlier films that action is still there with some over top the gun fights.


4/5  

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