In my opinion " GOD DAMN YESSSSSS!!!! "

The Killer is better. (same director).

@@jamr3186 The Killer is very good too but, IMHO, the best John Woo's movie is Bullet in the Head.

@@victorfatalys1076 el problema es que son todas geniales jajajajajaja the problem is that they are all great xdxdxdxdx

I 'm a fan of fat and woo era but the raid is more intense for me . We talk about action movie not about gunfights

Oh wow

That's awesome

Legend

Whats the backstory with the teahouse?

@@seaweedy7091 No real backstory. My mom said my grandfather was the architect of the teahouse back when she was a young girl and when they shot the movie, it was already destined to be torn down as at the time Hong Kong was redoing many of the old neighbourhoods into highrise apartments.

In fact it's cut in the middle (just after the killing of the cop with the id), watch closely...

At a low point in morale for the crew, Woo needed something to fire them up and came with the idea to do this shot. It totally worked, the crew went all in to make it shine, and it galvanized them to bring the rest of the shoot in to a strong finish. Setup took the FX team a full day. They did two takes. After the first one, the rest of the crew and the cast got a break for a day while the pyro guys reset everything and then they shot it again. There actually is a cut in the middle because they did use the first half of one take and the second half of the other. The elevator is a rotating set piece. It doesn't go up or down, it just turned 180 to reveal the other "floor" of the set.

what do you mean with body count? real person died?

@@ZevFei its how many men the director slept with

@@sotb367 what do you mean

@@ZevFei well you know how the phrase "body count" is also used to signify how many people you've fucked. so i made a joke about that

@@ZevFei how many fictional deaths there were

Just as in westerns, a cutaway is as good as a reload.

Bullet in the Head is his masterpiece. It’s an epic tragedy.

@@williamwong1982 Agree. Its his most emotionally powerful movie, but its not easy viewing. It's also a movie that only true John Woo fans have watched lol

@@Slaphappy1975 Absolutely. Even though all of his movies are violent this one is where you truly feel the pain from it. When people say they’ve seen it you’re know they’re true cinephiles.

Where to watch A better tomorrow online. It is not in youtube. I have searched

@@romwiz2010 its on Netflix

Exactly! Hard Boiled is John Woo's transitional movie from Hong Kong gun-play action to more Hollywood feel which you can see many similarities to his 1st Hollywood action movie Hard Target('Hard' in the title was pretty much an intentional node to Hard Boiled). As Hard Boiled is what made John Woo got noticed by the big studios in Hollywood. But The Killer has so much more depth and more of Hong Kong homegrown feel from story to action, it felt so much more grounded. And in my opinion The Killer is John Woo's best movie bar none. His movie just went downhill after that, they all became more style over substance, too many unnecessary slow mos and 'mexican stand-off' scenarios. The best or worst example of that is MI2, the story is so badly written it's gringe worth bad(the studio gave John Woo the full control from the script to direction as Tom Cruise demanded studio to hire Woo to do the MI2 and in order to do so they basically gave everything Woo asked for and more). In my opinion the praises from Hollywood everywhere just completely gone to John Woo's head and he lost his way his root, in another word the soul which made his Hong Kong movies the iconic movies that made him the folk lord of the best decade of Hong Kong movie history(early 80s to late 90s). Also if you wanted to see his equally brilliant gun-play action directing and editing it has to be , the story is not so logic almost silly as the studio didn't expect the 1st movie to be as successful as it turned out to be(it broke just about every Hong Kong box-office records), so they have to make up this ridiculous reason to bring Chow Yun Fat back as the duel guns welding lead. And in it you have some of the best and most stylish gun-play action sequences and setpieces ever created as well as the sound effect and soundtracks. A Better Tomorrow Part I doesn't have as many stylish action sequences but it made Chow Yun Fat the icon of cool around the world and no one in the world can weld duel handguns as cool as him even many had tried. Therefore, I would strongly recommend you to check these 3 movies out if you can find them! in the order of: A Better Tomorrow Part I then Part II, and finally The killer to see how John Woo has progressed from his 1st major success as director to the peak of his career with his storytelling and direction. I personally don't count any of his Hollywood movies as his best. was a successful movie in term of box-office and him getting all of the attention but it still not even near the same level of The Killer even Hard Boiled.

Same

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon & Red Cliff

Hollywood never gives full control to Hong Kong directors b/c they tend to think that foreigners have limited understanding of what entertains American audiences. Face/Off gave him the most artistic freedom.

Pretty much. And at least we got a sequel to this as a game, WITH Chow Yun Fat reprising his role.

I remember being quite confused about that movie's comedy.

Sorry, but Reservoir Dogs is taken from City on Fire.

@@waikong7073 Erm... yah, that's exactly what I said 🤨

Chow made a ridiculous but also badass biker

I agree that "The Killer" is much better.

Gotta throw in for A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2 and A Bullet in the Head!

Yes. However… “Bullet in the Head” is John Woos best film. “The Killer” is second best. “Full Contact” was the best CYF and Ringo Lam collaboration. “Flaming Brothers” is fantastic, but underrated.

Hard Boiled is Woo's best action movie. The Killer is Woo's best movie. A Bullet in the Head is very good as well but it is a bitch to find anywhere.

I also remembered that rumour back in the early 2000s where they wanted John Woo to direct a Metroid movie.

Now you mention it, rings a bell

The venoms are legendary.

Its ok, I didnt realize it either, till I heard it out loud on the radio recently and it all clicked.

Thank you!! 😁

If you've seen The Untold Story....yup.

You lucky bastard. I'd love to see this or The Killer in a theater.

I did think when the elevator doors opened if they had just reset the set very quickly! Shows how much effort went into this film

@@_willandjack i know right? So much effort. Dude thanks for the replying back.

What about A Better Tomorrow? That was the first of his real gunfight action movies.

@@JnEricsonx A Better Tomorrow is excellent as well and Chow Yun-fat is one of the stars but he really isn't the main star of the movie. It wasn't really till Hardboiled where he was considering a solo star.

​@@thepayne7862 A Better Tomorrow launched a fashion craze of black Trenchcoats back in the 80's, which Matrix ripped off. It was the film that launched Chow Yun Fat as a movie star and was so successful they knew the sequel wouldn't work without him which is why they came up with the "twin brother" gimmick. I think Chow Yun Fat also knew this was his big break, which is why he over acted the utter f**k out of every scene he had in that film. Seriously, go back and watch his every scene. The man is chewing scenery with every word.

face/off is a movie im very curious to watch

@@_willandjack Face/off is a good bad movie. As in it's terrible but it's entertaining because of that.

@@_willandjack It stars John Travolta and Nicholas Cage, so it has enough cheese, bull, and corn to provide nachos to the entire southern hemisphere.

Meanwhile Hollywood didn't know what to do with him, or Woo. Morons.

I have seen Untold Story.

And then realize how much stuff he kept from this and put into Hard Target. Which is completely fine.