Tequila (Chow Yun-Fat) is a bad ass super cop and he's going to bring down the mobsters that killed his buddy...with maybe a little help from an undercover cop (Tony Leung).
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After years of glorifying Triad gangsters in films like The Killer and A Better Tomorrow, John Woo decided to use every trick in his filmic arsenal to glorify the police. Holy shit did it work! Since this film, Woo's work has been pretty light in the 'pistol ballet' department and I think it's because there's really no point. As sad as it is to see him churning out stuff like Mission: Impossible 2 and Paycheck, you have to remember: Everything that can been done has already been done. There's no new ground to cover. The known world has been conquered. But fortunately for us, those early battles exist forever on DVD to watch over and over and over and over again!
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