Bullet In The Head (bluray) slipcase edition
Bullet In The Head (bluray) slipcase edition
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Director: John Woo
Cast: Tony Leung, Jackie Cheung, Waise Lee, Simon Yam, Yolinda Yan, and Fennie Yuen
Region: All
John Woo’s BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990) is a bruising, operatic descent into brotherhood betrayed, ambition corrupted, and innocence annihilated by violence. Set against the waning days of British Hong Kong and the inferno of the Vietnam War
The film follows three small-time friends (played by Tony Leung, Jackie Cheung and Waise Lee) whose bond is forged in youthful bravado and petty crime. A botched robbery forces them to flee Hong Kong, seeking refuge and fortune in wartime Vietnam, where chaos promises opportunity.
What begins as a desperate gamble quickly curdles into a nightmare. Captured by enemy forces, the trio endure brutal imprisonment that strips away their illusions and moral certainties. When they escape, survival demands compromise, and the men begin to fracture under the weight of greed, guilt, and diverging loyalties.
Woo charts this erosion with relentless intensity, transforming a tale of camaraderie into a tragic study of how war amplifies the worst human impulses.
Stylistically, BULLET IN THE HEAD fuses Woo’s balletic gunplay and slow-motion bloodshed with a raw emotional fury rarely matched in his later, more romanticized action films. Less heroic than A BETTER TOMORROW and more despairing than THE KILLER, it stands as Woo’s angriest film—a howl of rage at violence itself, and a mournful elegy for friendships that cannot survive the cost of survival.
Label: Nova Media
Format: bluray
Country: Hong Kong
Year: 1990
Language: Cantonese (with English, Chinese and Korean subtitles); optional Mandarin audio track
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Special Features
- Alternate Ending (5 mins 10 seconds)
- Trailer
Technical Specifications
- Picture: 1080P High Definition 1.85:1
- Audio: Cantonese Dolby TrueHD 7.1, Mandarin Dolby Digital 5.1 EX
- Subtitles: English, Chinese, Korean
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