Review of A Better Tomorrow

While at times it can be rather cheesy, to me everything else is near perfect the story is captivating Chow yun fats performance is excellent and the action scenes are some of the very best put on the screen. Also the pacing of the film is amazing fitting so much into the 90 minute runtime. The highlights of the movie though is easily Chow Yun Fats revenge fueled rampage in the Chinese restaurant, the emotional scene on the hill and last but definitely not least the ultra bloody final shootout at the docks. John Woo made a few films that came close to this (Hard Boiled, Face/Off, The Killer and A Better Tomorrow 2 being some) but none of them captured the magic of this genre Final Rating: 9.8.