Critics Club 33: Woo

[Neon Ignition]

This one will tests peoples movie knowledge as they'll have to be familiar with his pre-hollywood days to judge the whole list.

John Woo

Epics and Action officiado. But which of his films is the very best work he's done?

[prinnysquad]

Supposedly he's done a load of iffy Taiwanese cheapies too. I read on one obscure kungfu site that someone questioned him on a little-known early effort, and Woo practically inferred that he was embarrassed by it and just pretended that it never existed.

[prinnysquad]

http://www.fareastfilms.com/reviewsPage/Fists-Of-The-Double-K-607.htm

[stevie vip 99]

Either hard boiled or one of the better tomorrow films for me. I'll think about it before I vote.
Haven't seen a lot of his films before these ones, most after though

[Darwock]

The Killer for me, despite the homoeroticism. After that, probably Hard Boiled.

[Asura]

Would vote for Red Cliff if it was 1 movie (I have the boxset). It's surprisingly good.

[QualityChimp]

Shao Lin Men (AKA The Hand of Death) is pretty good and features Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung and Yeun Biao onscreen together for the first time.

I'm not a massive fan of the Heroic Bloodshed genre, but as a wake up call to the West, Hard Boiled was a masterpiece of action cinema. It feels like a CV for Woo before he left for Hollywood, a culmination of his Eastern films before being tainted by the West.

The picture of Chow Yun-Fat toting a shotgun in one hand and a baby in the other is pretty iconic!

All his Western films are a bit silly, really. Magic M:I masks and face transplants? No thanks.

[bash]

He never has and never will better Hard Boiled. Its still fantastic to this day.

[originalbadboy]

Hard Boiled is a great film ... Still think Face Off is his best though, even if it is a bastardised American version of some of his previous efforts.

[Finsbury Girl]

Hard to separate The Killer, Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow. For me all fantastic films. Red Cliff for me was a perfect film representation of Manhua in the style of Force of Buddha's Palm, Oriental Heroes et al.

[CMcK]

Really difficult to pick between Red Cliff, Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow. Feck it Chow Yun Fat is called Tequila in Hard Boiled that'll swing it.