10-11-2023, 11:56 PM
(10-11-2023, 09:54 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote: Surely one of the ultravi masterpieces upon which John Woo built his reputation. The actions scenes are still over the top, even more so now when you realize this predates cgi and all the stunts, all the full auto muse flash, all the broken glass and spattered blood - ALL REAL, all done in camera. And don’t even get me started on that one-er - it remains throughly gripping. I can’t even imagine the body count.
Found a clean version with subs on YouTube if anyone else wants to revisit this. I’ll post the link later (watched on Stacy’s channel because she has premium and I don’t have it dialed in on my phone so it’s not in my history).
Notes:
Tea house seen explodes into chaos. Cud 2 gun attacks & toothpick - tequila
Paper blowing up like confetti
Escalates quickly
Flour the blood spatter
Ridiculous body count
Jazz undertone - wailing clarinet - music note code do rei mi
So sanguineous
Young Tony Leung so dashingly handsome - charmingly evil yet conflicted assassin
Tequila always nonchalant
Scene ends with freeze frame fades
Young Anthony Wong - edgy psycho awkward
Warehouse drug lab gun runners - random spark spills. When uzi was king.
The finale hospital firefight is a masterpiece of ultravi
Saxophong
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