Directed by  John Woo, with Chow Yun-Fat, Ti Lung, Dean Shek, Leslie Cheung, Tsang Kong

(Hong Kong, 1987, col., 100')

Strike back the leading characters of "A Better Tomorrow" but....there's a problem! How make "Mark" to come back in life, the character   who, most of all, had struck public imagination and who dead in the first chapter? No problem, it is sufficient to invent a twin that lives in New York. The final has made epoch: still today, in spite of a lot of Americans imitations, remains unsuperable and tremendous.

Have written:

"The mix of melodrama and gangster's movies this time has sworn well to Woo: and the impudent sentimetalism ( that the western people may find -  but it is only for their own blame  - involuntary comical) is the necessary  premise to the eroical ideal  of  himself's sacrifice. The finals 20' have made epoch, with one of the most violents and apocalyptics shootings of all times cinema, explicit Woo's homage to Peckinpah's "The Wild bunch" (Free english translation from:  Paolo Mereghetti, Dizionario dei Film, 1998, Baldini e Castoldi)

" With this movie, Woo arrives to the zenith: the final slaughter  is shoted  with such rhythmic and energy  that still today guarantees to the audience, no matter how many violents films would have eaten, an upsetting  emotional shock ( you must try to believe)...  the four leading characters face all alone a real enemies army, in a lead and blood's tempest of   incredible strenght , in a visual orgy that consider  slackenings of speed, accelerations, fermifotogramas and a cutting that, in comparison, every MTV 's videclip looks like an artigianal shoting of a confirmation made by the uncle" (Free english translation from: Maurizio Colombo, Almanacco del giallo di Nick Raider, 1998, Sergio Bonelli editore).

* Thanks Maurizio Colombo, it is simply perfect for this movie.

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