John Woo

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Hand Of Death (Shao Lin men) (1976): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Biao Yuen; Fairly standard HK action fare with a young Shaolin martial–artist given the difficult task of avenging the death of a member of his order.…
Better Tomorrow, A (1986): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat; Chow Yun–Fat stars in the high–octane gangster flick that literally changed the face of the genre. A cop becomes ostracized by the force…
Heroes Shed No Tears (1986): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Eddy Ko; Bloody actioner has elite commandos having to capture a drug lord and smuggle him into Thailand. Things do not go smoothly. Early John Wood effort…
Better Tomorrow II, A (1987): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Kenneth Tsang, Emily Chu; Sequel to Woo's breakout genre classic finds Chow Yun–Fat shoehorned (as the twin brother of his original role, no less) into another fire…
Killer, The (1989): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat; Action at break–neck speed with a body–count to match the running time, this smorgasbord of super–violence with lashings of good…
Bullet in the Head (1990): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Jacky Cheung, Waise Lee; John Woo's indictment of war as raw and visceral as its title. Three friends flee Hong Kong and find themselves knee deep in the corruption and…
Once a Thief (1991): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Leslie Cheung, Kenneth Tsang; Whimsical actioner combines directorial flair with the charisma of Chow Yun–Fat. He leads an elite team of art thieves who encounter the…
Hard-Boiled (1992): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Anthony Wong; An action film to end all action films, John Woo's technical command of the genre reaches its peak with this ballistic ballet in which Chow…
Hard Target (1993): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Jean-Claude Van Damme; Hong Kong action style–merchant John Woo goes America and fashions an ultra–violent cartoon for Jean–Claude Van Damme. Complete…
Broken Arrow (1996): Dir. John Woo
Feat. John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis…; When John Travolta nicks off with a couple of nuclear warheads, its enough to transform his (former) air–force buddy (Christian Slater) into…
Once a Thief (1996): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Sandrine Holt, Ivan Sergei, Nicholas Lea…; John Woo remakes his Hong Kong hit with an American cast of young unknowns in English. Woo pretty much operates as gun–for–hire here, but…
Face Off (1997): Dir. John Woo
Feat. John Travolta, Nicolas Cage, Joan Allen; Dir. John Woo melds modern action technology with old–fashioned Mission Impossible–style intrigue. Good guy John Travolta and bad guy…
Blackjack (1998): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Dolph Lundgren, Kate Vernon; Action dir. John Woo moonlights with this Canadian telemovie that has beefcake security Dolph Lundgren contracted to protect a supermodel marked for…
Mission: Impossible 2 (2000): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandiwe Newton…; Submerging all traces of the original series, Tom Cruise returns as Ethan Hunt, whose mission it is to keep a deadly synthetic virus out of the hands…
Windtalkers (2002): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Nicolas Cage, Christian Slater, Adam Beach…; Based on a little–known chapter of WWII – the use by the US army of Navajo Indians for their ‘unbreakable’ language to help…
Paycheck (2003): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman…; Action–orientated version of a typically complex Phillip K Dick sci–fi story, in which hero Affleck must contend with wiped memories,…
Red Cliff (The Battle of Red Cliff) (2008): Dir. John Woo
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Takeshi Kaneshiro, Fengyi Zhang…; A gargantuan Han Dynasty epic from Hong Kong's action movie grandmaster, John Woo, in which two kingdoms must form an unlikely alliance to stave off…
Beginning of the Great Revival (The Founding of a Party) (2011): Dir. Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang
Feat. Andy Lau, Chow Yun-Fat, Daniel Wu…; In the tradition of unashamedly jingoistic cinema comes this state–sanctioned celebration of ninety years of Chinese Communist Party rule.…

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