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Format: DVD
Jun 1998
Not Rated
Recording Mode: Mono
Sound: HiFi
126 min.
Color
Extra Info: Criterion Collection
UPC: 715515009041 |
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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.
Synopsis
After a deadly shoot-out with a ruthless band of gunrunners, Inspector "Tequila" Yuen (Yun Fat) is reprimanded by the police brass for excessive use of force. He soon gets himself into even more trouble by trying to arrest a gangster who is actually an undercover agent. But Yuen gets one last chance to redeem himself in the film's blood-soaked finale. Teaming up with the undercover cop, Yuen battles the mob in an apocalyptic gunfight at the city hospital. In addition to subduing the criminals, he also has to rescue a newborn baby mistakenly left behind in the flames of the burning nursery.
Film Notes
DVD Features:
Region 1
Keep Case
Letterboxed - 1.85
Single Side - Dual Layer
Audio:
Dolby Digital Mono - Cantonese
Dolby Digital Mono - English
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - 1. John Woo - Director, Terence Chang - Producer, Roger Avery - Filmmaker, Dave Kehr - Critic
Bonus Feature/Short - 1. ACCIDENTALLY: Student Film by John Woo
Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
2. THE YOUNG DRAGONS
3. HAND OF DEATH
4. PRINCESS CHANG PING
5. LAST HURRAH FOR CHIVALRY
6. FROM RAGS TO RICHES
7. A BETTER TOMORROW
8. A BETTER TOMORROW II
9. THE KILLER
10. BULLET IN THE HEAD
11. ONCE A THIEF
Text/Photo Galleries:
Poster Art/Lobby Card
Production Notes
Stills/Photos - 1. Stills from trailers
2. Production Stills
Essay - 1. GUIDE TO HONG KONG CRIME FILMS - David Chute
Additional Text - 1. DVD Production Credits
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).
Industry 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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