A Better Tomorrow II

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"I won't give you nothing, man; I give you shit," sneers charismatic superstar Chow Yun Fat, speaking English (with a De Niro accent) in his role as a New York restaurateur who won't knuckle under to the (Italian) mob. Chow plays the twin brother of the character he played in the original Tomorrow, the ultraviolent, ultraromantic ultrapopular Hong Kong gangster melodrama. And the blatancy of that device is a fair indication of the sequel's shortcomings--and of its screwy charm: this is a film that knows no shame. The bond between the natural siblings played by Ti Lung (as a reformed mobster) and Leslie Cheung (as a hot shot cop) still resonate tellingly. As a good-guy ex-thug driven batty by the slaying of his only daughter, real-life Cinema City studio chief Dean Shek gets to play a garishly extended "mad scene," foaming at the mouth, chewing on soup bones. A later episode in which a dying man crawls to a phone booth to call his wife (and newborn daughter) in the hospital must also be some kind of lurid first in the soap sweepstakes. The final 15 minutes could be the bloodiest single shoot-out sequence ever committed to celluloid. The story line hasn't been shaped to any particular purpose here, but the images have a golden Godfather-like glow, and this faintly anachronistic, all-stops-out wish-fulfillment approach to moviemaking still has a lot of power. --David Chute

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"I won't give you nothing, man; I give you shit," sneers charismatic superstar Chow Yun Fat, speaking English (with a De Niro accent) in his role as a New York restaurateur who won't knuckle under to the (Italian) mob. Chow plays the twin brother of the character he played in the original Tomorrow, the ultraviolent, ultraromantic ultrapopular Hong Kong gangster melodrama. And the blatancy of that device is a fair indication of the sequel's shortcomings--and of its screwy charm: this is a film that knows no shame. The bond between the natural siblings played by Ti Lung (as a reformed mobster) and Leslie Cheung (as a hot shot cop) still resonate tellingly. As a good-guy ex-thug driven batty by the slaying of his only daughter, real-life Cinema City studio chief Dean Shek gets to play a garishly extended "mad scene," foaming at the mouth, chewing on soup bones. A later episode in which a dying man crawls to a phone booth to call his wife (and newborn daughter) in the hospital must also be some kind of lurid first in the soap sweepstakes. The final 15 minutes could be the bloodiest single shoot-out sequence ever committed to celluloid. The story line hasn't been shaped to any particular purpose here, but the images have a golden Godfather-like glow, and this faintly anachronistic, all-stops-out wish-fulfillment approach to moviemaking still has a lot of power. --David Chute

A Better Tomorrow II - Internet Movie Firearms Database - Guns in ... A Better Tomorrow II is the 1987 Hong Kong action sequel to A Better Tomorrow. John Woo returned to direct the film, and once again stars Chow Yun-Fat, this time as ... A Better Tomorrow II (1987) - IMDb Director: John Woo. Actors: Dean Shek: Lung Si Lung Ti: Sung Tse-Ho Leslie Cheung: Sung Tse-Kit Yun-Fat Chow: Ken / Mark Lee / Mark 'Gor' Emily Chu ... A Better Tomorrow II - Rotten Tomatoes - Movies Movie Trailers ... Review: Following the bloody climax of the previous film, A Better Tomorrow -- again directed by John Woo -- opens with Sung Chi-hi (spelled Tse-ho in the... Amazon.com: A Better Tomorrow II: Leslie Cheung, Yun-Fat Chow ... "I won't give you nothing, man; I give you shit," sneers charismatic superstar Chow Yun Fat, speaking English (with a De Niro accent) in his role as a New York ... A Better Tomorrow II (1987) With Dean Shek, Lung Ti, Leslie Cheung. A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter. Director ... A Better Tomorrow 2 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Better Tomorrow 2 is a 1987 Hong Kong action crime drama thriller film directed by John Woo, starring Chow Yun-fat, Dean Shek, Leslie Cheung and Ti Lung. A follow ... A Better Tomorrow 2 (1987) (from left to right) Chow Yun-Fat, Ti Lung, Dean Shek and Kenneth Tsang. A Better Tomorrow 2 - YouTube The story continues as Ann(Ngozi Ezeonu) and her three children passes through serious hard times as a result of the death of her husband Etiebeth(Olu ... Amazon.com: A Better Tomorrow/A Better Tomorrow II: John Woo, Chow ... A Better Tomorrow is the John Woo gangster classic that started it all, a romantic, violent, swirlingly stylish melodrama about dueling brothers--with a mesmerizing ... A Better Tomorrow II (1987) - Full Movie With Eng Sub. - YouTube A Better Tomorrow II (1987) Full Movie With Eng Sub