Year:
1986
Studio:
Cinema City Film Productions
Feature:
2/5
DVD:
0/5
A Better Tomorrow
is a Hong Kong action film starring Lung Ti as Ho Tse Sung, a criminal
"Big Brother" who is determined to quit the business. There are
complications. Ho's brother, Kit (Leslie Cheung), is a police officer
tarnished by having an ex-con as a brother. Moreover, Kit still thinks
that Ho will revert to form and rejoin the syndicate.
Mark (Chow Yun-Fat) is Ho's former partner, crippled in a gunfight that
left him a gimpy shell of his former self. Mark still wants to get back
into the syndicate that discarded him and he wants Ho to join him.
Finally there is Shing (Waise Lee), the current defacto head of the
syndicate, former protegé to Ho, and who secretly betrayed Ho
three years ago. Shing is just a spiteful man who wants to destroy Ho's
spirit.
There is a lot of what I think of as typical HK gunplay. The whole
Ho/Kit relationship is a bit over the top. The subtitles are rather
poor which made it hard to understand the plot. Overall it's a merely
ok movie.
The DVD has Mandarin and Cantonese audio tracks and several asian
subtitle tracks along with an english subtitle track.
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