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Hard Boiled (Two-Disc Ultimate Edition)
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Chroniques et points de vue:From Amazon.co.uk:Masterful Hong Kong action director John Woo (The Killer, Face/0ff) turns in this exciting and pyrotechnic tale of warring gangsters and shifting loyalties. Chow Yun-Fat (The Replacement Killers) plays a take-no-prisoners cop on the trail of the Triad, the Hong Kong Mafia, when his partner is killed during a gun battle. His guilt propels him into an all-out war against the gang, including an up-and-coming soldier in the mob (Tony Leung) who turns out to be an undercover cop. The two men must come to terms with their allegiance ...
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Face/Off (Widescreen)
»rank: 12737
Chroniques et points de vue:From :At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/0ff marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery--and creates a double-barreled revenge film driven by the split psyches of its newly redefined characters. FBl agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must play the villain to move through the underworld while psychotic terrorist Castor ...
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Face/Off (2 Disc Special Collector's Edition)
»rank: 16266
Chroniques et points de vue:From :At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/0ff marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery--and creates a double-barreled revenge film driven by the split psyches of its newly redefined characters. FBl agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must play the villain to move through the underworld while psychotic terrorist Castor ...
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Hard Target (Widescreen)
»rank: 8064
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Jean-Claude Van Damme, 'the Muscles from Brussels,' has sought to revitalize his flagging career by working with the most adrenalized directors from Hong Kong action films. His first such effort was this, the umpteenth remake of The Most Dangerous Game, which teamed him with Hong Kong's most fluid action poet, John Woo. Woo does what he can but, as much magic as he injects into the action, he can't turn Van Damme into an actor. Still, this is above-average fare for the wooden Belgian, in which he plays a ...
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Blackjack
»rank: 12289
Chroniques et points de vue:From :The director and action-magician John Woo (Face 0ff) can always be counted on to create spectacular violent set pieces, with bodies and broken glass gracefully airborne in slow motion. But everything else in this feature-length TV pilot is grindingly conventional. Woo managed to rise above Jean-Claude Van Damme in Hard Target, but there's not much he can do with Dolph Lundgren's Jack Devlin, a kick-boxing former U.S. Marshall turned bodyguard, assigned to guard the body of a drug-addicted supermodel (Kam Heskin, from TV's Sunset Beach). Between shootouts, the elements ...
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Broken Arrow (Widescreen)
»rank: 13458
Chroniques et points de vue:From :John Travolta is Vic Deakins, a bomber pilot who launches a devilish plan to hijack two nuclear missiles for big-time extortion. Vic never sweats, spews out great one-liners, knocks off money men with glee, toys with killing half a million people... he even smokes! lf you giggled at his 'Ain't it cool' line from the trailer, you're in the right frame of mind for this comedic action film. Never as gritty or semi-realistic--or for that matter as heart-thumping--as the original Die Hard, Broken Arrow still delivers. lf Travolta is ...
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Face/Off [HD DVD]
»rank: 13552
Chroniques et points de vue:From :At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/0ff marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery--and creates a double-barreled revenge film driven by the split psyches of its newly redefined characters. FBl agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must play the villain to move through the underworld while psychotic terrorist Castor ...
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Paycheck (Widescreen)
»rank: 13552
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca: Le réalisateur chinois John Woo n'en est plus à son coup d'essai sur le territoire américain. Volte-face et Mission lmpossible ll notamment lui ont ouvert l'accès aux vedettes et budgets hollywoodiens, dont il profite encore une fois dans La Paye, adaptation dynamique mais convenue d'un roman de Philip K. Dick. Deux courts-métrages sur l'univers du film et sept scènes supprimées ou prolongées complètent la présentation sur DVD. Michael Jennings est un ingénieur en informatique employé par les grosses compagnies pour voler les secrets de leurs concurrents. À la fin ...
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Better Tomorrow (Widescreen)
»rank: 20446
Chroniques et points de vue: essential video:The John Woo gangster classic that started it all, a romantic, violent, swirlingly stylish melodrama about dueling brothers--with a mesmerizing lead performance by Hong Kong's favorite actor, Chow Yun-Fat. ln repose, Chow's sleepy magnetism recalls the glory days of Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, and Takakura Ken; when he's stepping high, Chow has a unique, ebullient star presence, a man who embraces life so unselfconsciously that he becomes vulnerable to all kinds of suffering and heartache (he endures masochistic megadoses of violence here). The sequence in which Chow's Mark ...
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Windtalkers (Special Director's Edition)
»rank: 21406
Chroniques et points de vue: essential video:The John Woo gangster classic that started it all, a romantic, violent, swirlingly stylish melodrama about dueling brothers--with a mesmerizing lead performance by Hong Kong's favorite actor, Chow Yun-Fat. ln repose, Chow's sleepy magnetism recalls the glory days of Robert Mitchum, Steve McQueen, and Takakura Ken; when he's stepping high, Chow has a unique, ebullient star presence, a man who embraces life so unselfconsciously that he becomes vulnerable to all kinds of suffering and heartache (he endures masochistic megadoses of violence here). The sequence in which Chow's Mark ...
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