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Better Tomorrow, A

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by Son of Funkenstein

"John Woo kicks ass, old skool style"

This is where it is at, baby! Long coats, two gunned ballistic ballet... Heroic bloodshed at its most bloody...

Frankly any exposition of plot is completely unnecessary, but suffice it to say that for Ho and Mark (all bow down before the alter of Chow Yun Fat) retiring from a life of counterfeiting crime is proving to be troublesome, particularly as Ho's policeman younger brother Kit is looking to cause trouble with their former gang chums.

A Better Tomorrow starts relatively slowly, but the typical HK penchant for syrupy sentiment is regularly spiced up with unbelievably violent bloodshed and mayhem as Ho and Mark are double- and triple-crossed by various shady and ungrateful criminal types. As the owner of Universal taxi Company says: "Once you're in, it's very hard to get out", and he wasn't talking about Dolly Parton's cleavage.

The film culminates in a spectacular dockside shoot out that fully demonstrates that you should never equip your evil minions with machine guns as they are very inaccurate weapons in the hands of baddies... in Ho and Mark's hands, however, they are deadly accurate, and never need reloading! Oooh yeaaah! And so, after carving up two-thirds of the criminal population of Kowloon, Mark is felled by the villainous Shing, Ho and brother Kit make it up and cap his evil ass and mirth and merriment reign.

Huzzah for Hong Kong Cinema!

Guns, more guns, and explosions, all done with the utmost cool. This is an awesome film. And as for Part 2....

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3/16/09 Josie Cotton is a goddess The film that made Chow Yen Fat a superstar! 5 stars

5/25/07 Sugarfoot Once again Woo's HK movies make me weep for the talent he left behind. 5 stars

5/11/06 Agent Sands Actually, it's on par with your average '70s-'80s TV movie, save for Chow Yun-Fat's scenes. 4 stars

9/27/05 John J. Ground breaking 5 stars

9/27/04 Archanist_101 This classic is inbetween "Face/Off" & "DIE HARD"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 5 stars

7/01/04 "Meth Lab" for Dummies. Not as good as i though but, GREAT NONETHELESS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 4 stars

11/21/03 rony i only saw the first movie, which i thought was very AWESOME!!! but i gotta see the 2nd^_^ 5 stars

7/03/03 ND a masterpiece,....it's one of true Hong Kong classic, CYF and Woo look so good 5 stars

6/21/03 Sammy action is awesome but it is still not good as his best...THE KILLER! 5 stars

8/19/02 Mr. Hat (I'm Back!) Save for the horrible dubbing job, this is a great movie. 4 stars

11/30/01 Rutt13 Easy to see how this was a phenomenon in HK, groundbreaking 5 stars

8/14/01 KC Au The best film from Hong Kong I have seen! Highly recommended! 5 stars

6/26/01 Lars Pettersson What a great actionmovie! Chow Yun-Fat is incredible. The ending is pure magic !!! 4 stars

5/13/01 Rudolpho Antonio Chicano Mexicano dePerez Woo falls flat. Lomeo must die! 1 stars

5/21/00 Cinesuerte great mix of action heroism 5 stars

5/03/99 The Bomb 69 No one does it better!!! Woo is God!!! 5 stars

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USA 02-Feb-1986 (R) DVD: 02-Mar-2004 UK N/A Australia N/A

Directed by John Woo Written by John Woo Cast Yun-Fat Chow Lung Ti Leslie Cheung Emily Chu Waise Lee Fui-On Shing

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