Woo’s most riotous American film receives a solid upgrade to UHD.
The film’s action is as artful as anything that Woo has whipped up throughout his career.
This disc offers a pristine window on a future master learning his craft.
Hard Target marries John Woo’s wild formalist techniques with a host of late-’80s and early-’90s American action tropes.
I was so excited to see the film as a kid that I nearly vomited after getting my ticket punched.
The New York Asian Film Festival has emerged as quite possibly the most sheer fun of all the major New York film festivals.
The screenwriters are savvy enough to acknowledge that audiences have moved on from Ethan Hunt and the IMF.
These famous fights to the death should, together, sate even the bloodthirstiest film fans.
Though both parts of Woo’s original film mostly serve to amplify his central pre-occupations, Red Cliff 2 goes a little farther in complicating them.
The film’s shortcomings have less to do with John Woo’s direction and more to do with the Frankenstein hatchet job enacted against it.
Skip this one and pop in that Criterion edition of Hard-Boiled for the real deal.
In Hard Boiled, John Woo makes an art form out of creating deceptive surfaces.
Both director and lead seem sluggish, unable to flex their necessary creative muscles.
The sophisticated collection of features should appeal to WWII even if John Woo fanatics decide to pass.
Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down set the unfortunate standard by which Hollywood shoots and maims soldiers for public consumption.