Imagine if Johnnie To is given the free reign to direct A Better Tomorrow <英雄本色>, the result would be something like A Hero Never Dies <真心英雄>. Like the seminal 1986 action-film classic, Johnnie To explores the popular “heroic bloodshed” subgenre and made it his own in an unabashedly operatic and quirky overtone.
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