A Better Tomorrow II (1987)
Directed by John Woo
A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.
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Where the film fails is in its resemblance, ironically, to Yuen's own work on The Bodyguard from Beijing (and even the awful Women on the Run) and in its uncomfortable similarity to John Woo's Hong Kong output--a cribbing owed as much to Yuen as producer Luc Besson, who has made it something of a closet industry in his action films to borrow liberally from The Killer and Hard-Boiled (and, in this particular instance, A Better Tomorrow II).
In one scene, Slater and Arquette watch A Better Tomorrow II (1987), by Tarantino's hero, Hong Kong director, John Woo.
Gore and gunsmoke (and assorted film clips ranging from Sonny Chiba's Streetfighter to John Woo's A Better Tomorrow II) are fine things, certainly, but after a while you begin to wish there were a little more here than just the odd collection of brilliant set pieces.