Bullet to the Head (2012)
Directed by Walter Hill
After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
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Jimmy “Bobo” Bonomo (Stallone) has borrowed his “code” from the anti-hero of John Woo’s “The Killer” – “No women, no kids.”
On peut retrouver plusieurs éléments utilisés pour ces films dans ses films hong-kongais comme Bullet to the Head et les deux A Better Tomorrow, mais surtout dans The Killer , qui propulsera sa carrière sur la scène internationale.
While trying to recruit Robert Mitchum for his late Western "El Dorado," director Howard Hawks was asked by the actor what the story of the film was.
From that point he went on the make a series of wildly entertaining action films, including smash hits like "The Warriors" and "48 Hrs" and cult favorites like "The Driver" and his 1984 masterwork "Streets of Fire." that transcended the limitations of the genre with a combination of memorably brutal physical action and a distinctive narrative style that frankly and without irony embraced the structures and tenets of classical mythology and let his characters express and explain themselves almost entirely through their actions.
Over 30 years ago, Stallone passed on appearing in two of Hill's early masterworks, The Driver and 48 Hrs .
Instead of subjecting us to his usual artless thuggery, Stallone has enticed the auteur action darling Walter Hill (my favorite of his films: The Long Riders, Southern Comfort, Hard Times) out of retirement and, based on the evidence, didn’t meddle too much with the camera placement and editing.
For those unfamiliar with the name (and if that is the case, then please take a moment or two to hang your head in shame), Hill started off as a screenwriter for projects by the likes of Sam Peckinpah ("The Getaway") before moving into the director's chair with the Charles Bronson boxing film "Hard Times."