WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Lucybespro It is a performances centric movie

Stevecorp Don't listen to the negative reviews

ActuallyGlimmer The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Claudio Carvalho In Hong Kong, the gangsters Sung Tse-Ho (Ti Lung) and Mark (Chow Yun Fat) are best friends. Ho's younger brother Sung Tse-Kit (Leslie Cheung) wants to be a police officer and does not know that his brother is a criminal. When Ho travels with another criminal to Taiwan for a negotiation, he is betrayed and arrested by the police. Meanwhile Mark kills the gang that betrayed his friend. After three years, Ho is finally released from the prison and returns to Hong Kong. He finds that Kit hates him and is investigating the Mafia and Mark is limped and in complete misery. But Ho promises that he would not return to life of outlaw and prefers to work as taxi driver. However he is haunted by his past and the need of protecting his estranged brother. . "Ying hung boon sik", a.k.a. "A Better Tomorrow", is a great crime film directed by John Woo. The good storyline about brotherhood, friendship and loyalty is full of action. The screenplay is tight and Sung Tse-Ho is a nice character incapable to regenerate due to the corrupt system. In the 80's, this movie had a greater impact but it is still a great action movie. My vote is seven.Title (Brazil): "Alvo Duplo" ("Double Target")

harry_armstrong81 ***MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS*** OK, to start this off; I saw this film after being gob-smacked after watching Hard Boiled. If this film helped kick start the heroic-bloodshed it must be good! So I picked it up and watched it and I must say, this is a great film! It's about a criminal brother who is siblings to an Inspector. But the next day takes a turn for the worse as he is betrayed by a counterfeit cash dealer in Taiwan, after a lengthy escape Sung Tse Ho finally gives up and is arrested by the Taiwanese police and jailed for 3 years. Later that night Ho's father is killed on orders of the Taiwanese dealer and Ho's true identiy unfolds. After Ho is released he starts working for a Taxi company. Later that day he discovers Mark (Ho's best friend and partner in crime)has become Shing(a once low ranking member of the organization Ho was in turned Boss)'s errand boy and is rewarded after cleaning his car HK$10. Ho later re-unites with Mark and they are around to take back their organization! Will they succeed?

mcotto8 This is one of those rare films that keep your attention from beginning to end. The action scenes are among the best and like its sequels and films The Killer and Hard Boiled show you, Chow Yun-Fat And director John Woo are the best action film combo ever!The one thing i enjoyed about the action scenes is that it seems more real than just about anything Hollywood has made in the last 25 years. The gunfire sounds more realistic and the car chases are not as choreographed as many big Hollywood films (the Bourne films are a rare exception). You just get this feeling of realism which is why true action fans love all his films.Watch this film and you wont be disappointed.

thisissubtitledmovies Perhaps the most influential director the action genre will ever see, John Woo honed his craft at the legendary Shaw Brothers studio before joining with producer Tsui Hark and finding his true calling in the crime genre. Woo's signature style, consisting of balletic action sequences alongside themes of religion, family and, of course, doves, is established with A Better Tomorrow. The Matrix, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Desperado, in fact, any film with a standoff, a dove, some slow motion or a black suited criminal owes a great debt to a signature style that was established with this film. John Woo has made better films, and he has made films that are much, much worse, but he will never come close to making the impact he did with this, his first slice of heroic bloodshed. KT