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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

It is a performances centric movie

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Excellent but underrated film

Disclaimer: If you are a viewer that mainly prefers art-house-type movies, then you might as well ignore this review. In addition, if you're not able to take a John Woo's best adrenaline HK classic action sequel flick , ignore this review, as well. We'll both be better off.A Better Tomorrow II (1987) is an adrenaline action sequel flick the best one of the two from John Woo. I know that the first one is an action classic for many of the people and they always going for the first one, but my favorite flick is this sequel. I know that The Godfather (1972) is my favorite film in the series but from John Woo's A Better Tomorrow is actually A Better Tomorrow II my favorite John Woo film. I love this movie to death, the acting is wonderful, believable and very realistic and Chow Yun-Fat which is my favorite actor gives one of his best convincing performances I have ever seen as Mark Gor's twin brother Ken. Not only he but everyone of the cast gives a wonderful performances on a screen which I love it.Plot: Restaurant owner Ken Gor, twin brother of Mark Gor, teams up with police detective Kit and his struggling ex-con brother Ho to avenge his old friend's daughter's death by a Triad gang.What I love about this movie is: Chow Yun-Fat does not die in this movie he acted wonderful his different character Ken. Ti Lung and Leslie Cheung are back as the brothers from the first film which I am not sure but I have saw a lot of actors from The Killer in this movie. This movie was also filmed in New York which you can see Twin Towers from the distance before it was destroyed in 9/11 terrorist attack. John Woo made one of his best action debut and making a perfect shots with the camera of this film. I admitted I am not a the biggest fan of the first and the third movie but this one surprised me which I loved it. In my opinion this film is better than the original. Ti Lung and Leslie Cheung's characters Ho and Kit are actually more well written than they were in the first. I hated it how Kit was treating his older brother beating him in the rain, treating him like a peace of garbage I hated that. In this film we see Kit's love and compassion toward his older brother Lung. Both of their characters were well written.This film is about a counterfeit dollars that are produced in the business and a new boss from Ho took over Lung Sei's business while framing Lung for a triad gang member's boss murder which he did not committed in which Lung had to flee to America New York, but his daughter was killed. The plot is about a revenge: Lung Sei (Dean Shek), Ho (Ti Lung) and Ken (Chow Yun-fat) are taking revenge against new triad boss Ko Ying-pui (Kwan Shan) and his group of army killers. Lung Sei want's revenge for the murder of his daughter Peggy (Regina Kent), Ho want's revenge for Kit's (Leslie Cheung) murder and Ken want's revenge for his restaurant in New York that has been destroyed. That is the film about. It has a lot of action and kick ass scenes and it also has a human emotional portrayal from the actors.I love the action sequences in New York from Ken (Chow Yun-Fat) in the hotel a group of assassins comes to kill Ken and Lung Sei (Dean Shek) Which Ken (Chow Yun-Fat) uses shotgun Franchi SPAS-12 and kills several mafia gangsters in the hotel New York. He fires several rounds with two Berettas 92F on a gangsters than flees while he fires another round with another gun on an assassins car. The final showdown and the last stand off with two Berettas between Ken (Chow Yun-Fat) and Chong (Lung Ming-yan) the firing scene was outstanding performed I have ever seen. John Woo tried that scene in Hard Boiled but he didn't want to copied his own work so he change it. Ti Lung uses a samurai sword and he kills bunch of gangsters. The trio of friends uses a lot of guns and grandees while killing a bunch of gangsters. The final showdown for me was spectacular.Overall: This flick get's a perfect 10 by me. Chow Yun-Fat and Leslie Cheung's screen time was beautiful shot, well written and acted perfectly. Theme score from the first movie was also beautiful, the action scenes where incredible. They don't make action movies like this one today. This flick is far way better than John Woo's Once A Thief. With Hard Target, Broken Arrow, Hard Boiled, Paycheck and The Killer would be a Better Tomorrow II my sixth John Woo favorite film that I love to death.A Better Tomorrow 2 is a 1987 Hong Kong action film written and directed by John Woo. A follow-up to its popular predecessor, A Better Tomorrow, the film stars returning cast members Chow Yun-fat, Ti Lung and Leslie Cheung alongside new cast member Dean Shek. The film was released in Hong Kong on 17 December 1987.10/10 Grade: Bad Ass Seal Of Approval Studio: Cinema City Film Workshop Distributed by Golden Princess Film Production Starring: Dean Shek, Chow Yun-fat, Ti Lung, Leslie Cheung, Emily Chu, Kwan Shan, Kenneth Tsang, Shing Fui-On, Lam Chung, Ng Man-tat, Peter Wang, Lung Ming-yan, Louis Roth, Regina Kent Director: John Woo Producer: Tsui Hark Screenplay: John Woo, Tsui Hark Rated: R Running Time: 1 Hr. 45 Mins. Box Office: HKD 22.700 (Hong Kong)

A Better Tomorrow 2 The hardest part of being an undercover cop is toning down your evilness to fit in with low-level thugs.Fortunately, it's a former Triad member doing the masquerading in this action movie. After years in prison, Ho (Ti Lung) is released and recruited by a task force intent on taking down a reputed counterfeiter, Lung (Dean Shek).With his brother Kit (Leslie Cheung) already under Lung's command, Ho agrees to help the police.But it's not Lung, Ho and Kit must worry about, it's Lung's lackey (Shan Kwan), who's usurping their leader.With help from an old friend's twin (Chow Yun-fat), Lung and his loyalists set out to ruin his former empire.While closely related to the characters from the first film, this John Woo helmed sequel doesn't require previous knowledge to impress viewers with its stylized gunfights. Incidentally, the best way to resolve Asian gang disputes is over karaoke.Green Lightvidiotreviews.blogspot.ca

This film is a sequel to A Better Tomorrow, the movie that brought John Woo to the notice of the world. This film is far superior to the original (which is usually quite unusual), as it delves far deeper into the characters in this movie, though it follows the theme of the original.Tsui Hark produced this movie, and Chow Yun Far is one of the major actors, which makes this movie one that has been developed by Hong Kong's heavy weights. The characters and cinematography may not be on par with films like Bullet in the Head and The Killer, but still has enough of a John Woo mark on it to make it a superior movie. Unfortunately, on the version that I watched, the subtitles seemed to have been rushed as they were full of spelling and grammatical mistakes.The movie is focused around five people, and jumps between New York and Hong Kong. The hero of a Better Tomorrow, Ho, is approached by the Hong Kong police to infiltrate an export company and find evidence that they are operating illegally. He refuses at first, but when he learns that his brother is involved, he decides to act. The problem is that the owner of the company was a crook, but wants to get out of it, and live a clean life. As he said, he has a criminal past and finds it impossible to escape it. Where Ho's criminal past was chasing him in the previous movie, the past is now chasing a new character, but this past is far more destructive than it was in the first movie.The boss find himself the target of an assassination, but while struggling with a gun, the assassin decides to shoot a couple of people in the room instead, making the boss believe that he is a killer. Now that he believes that he has blood on his hand, he knows that he cannot escape so he flees, and when he flees, his daughter is killed. In New York, his enemies are still after him, and he watches as his brother, who is now a minister in an Asian Church, is gunned down along with his congregation. As he sees everybody that he cares for dying around him, he slowly descends into madness.Ken, the twin brother of Mark, who was killed in the last movie, introduces Chow Yung Far. This is a bit of a cop-out I feel, but we quickly ignore that as Ken frees the boss from a lunatic asylum and attempts to nurse him back to health while he is being chased by hundreds of gangsters. In this scene the orange is important as it is the fruit that the boss picks up as he slowly comes out of his insanity, but quickly falls back into it when the gang attacks again. It is only when he sees the chance that Ken will die as well, that he comes out of it and attacks with a rabid ferocity.Back in Hong Kong, Ho and his brother are going through different challenges. Here Ho is attempting to infiltrate the gang as he is seeking revenge against the death of his friend's daughter. During this he is forced to shoot and kill his brother, but this is only a reflection of what is going to happen at the end. We see glimpses through the movie of Ho's brother's demise, and the closer we come to it, the more vivid these glimpses become. It is this part of the movie that John Woo really shines as a director. Here we see a life being born, as another is dying. The death finally comes as Ho's brother speaks to his newborn child, even though the child cannot hear.This movie is awesome, and the gunfight at the end should receive the true title of the biggest bodycount in film history, though the Killer has mass killings right through it. Still, this is a brilliant action movie, though its themes and characters make it far superior to your standard American action flick.

This film broke off a potentially very creative relationship between Tsui hark and John Woo; and it certainly feels like more than one film Certainly, until Chow Yun Fat shows up, the plot is a little complicated, and a little unbelievable. Once Chow appears, the plot becomes wildly unbelievable, but one can follow it with amusement and interest. Ti lung must also be credited with turning in a strong and well-grounded performance, even when the script calls for him to get schmaltzy.This is also the film that salvaged character actor dean Shek from obscurity, he wanted to prove he could act, and though he over acts occasionally, he actually does pretty well, especially in the final gun battle.It must be said that throughout his career, John Woo has repeatedly attempted to grasp the essence of the 'battle of bloody porch' from Sam Peckinpah's "the Wild Bunch" and duplicate it - and he has always failed. that's because (to be honest) Woo is a believing Christian; and although raised in the Calvinist tradition, Peckinpah clearly does not believe. Woo simply cannot grasp the basics of Peckinpah's existentialism.Consequently, the final battle here, while a lot of gory fun, doesn't really make the point Woo clearly wants for it (which is a believing Christian's interpretation of the Wild Bunch), but - never mind. On its own terms, as I say, it's quite fun.As for the 'serious' story concerning the young undercover cop and his pregnant wife, I didn't believe it for a moment, and, frankly, didn't care. I'm afraid I'm not a believing Christian, either.