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A Better Tomorrow II

1987 [CHINESE]

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

27
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 80% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 82% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 11875 11.9K

Plot summary

A restauranteur teams up with a police officer and his ex-con brother to avenge the death of a friend's daughter.

Director

John Woo Photo
John Woo

Top cast

Waise Lee Photo
Waise Lee as Shing
Leslie Cheung Photo
Leslie Cheung as Sung Tse-Kit
Yun-Fat Chow Photo
Yun-Fat Chow as Ken / Mark Lee / Mark 'Gor'
Kenneth Tsang Photo
Kenneth Tsang as Uncle Ken
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877.66 MB
1280*672
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 13
1.65 GB
1920*1008
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 45 min
Seeds 29

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Captain_Couth 8 / 10

A Better Tomorrow has yet to arrive. Will it ever come?

A Better Tomorrow II (1987) was rushed into production after the success of the first film. Armed with a bigger budget, Cinema City forged ahead with this sequel. Following after the events of part one. Lung Ti is about to be released from prison when he's offered a job as an undercover agent. His mission is to find some criminal evidence to topple his former boss (Cinema City board member Dean Shek). A first he dismisses the gig until he realizes they're going to his eager younger brother (Leslie Cheung). Once Lung is out, he notices that everything is not quite as it seems.An interesting film. This time Tsui Hark had more of a hand in the production. He included his friend Dean Shek into the movie and he employed his best action director (Ching Siu-Tung) to direct the over-the-top action scenes. John Woo wasn't pleased with this and he voiced his displeasure. The final rift came during the editing of the film. Tsui Hark wanted the movie to be under two hours so it could have more showings, John Woo wanted it to be an epic. Guess who one out? Say what you will about this film, the action scenes are pure Ching Siu-Tung. His wild action scenes made this movie. Mr. Tsui must have liked him a lot because he went on to choreograph the action scenes in The Killer (although he was credited with stunt coordinator the action scenes have all of his visual trademarks).The budget was huge on this one. It was filmed in Hong Kong and in the United States. Tsui Hark had another one of his friends (Peter Wang) co-star in the movie as well (he plays the inner city priest Dean Shek meets in N.Y.C.). Despite the friction caused by the behind the scenes squabbling, A Better Tomorrow II is a magnificent exercise in the ultra-violence. Awesome!Highly recommended.The last film in the trilogy is the epic A Better Tomorrow III: Love and death in Saigon.
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Reviewed by maxyg18 9 / 10

The final showdown steals the movie

This sequel to the 1986 predecessor is fantastic. Although Woo wasn't too happy about making a sequel and he didn't really care much about the film whilst making it, I think it totally worked and I think it's a lot better than the original. This time, the twin brother of Mark, (a character played by Chow Yun-Fat from the first A BETTER TOMORROW) Ken (Chow Yun Fat), must team up with undercover cop, Kit (Leslie Cheung), and his brother Ho (Ti Lung) and a good friend named Lung (Dean Shek) to avenge the death of Lung's daughter who was murdered by a Triads. Like the first film, it's got a hard storyline to follow, however, it has some fine acting that makes you care for the characters and it has some awesome action scenes (most notably, the final shootout). But if you liked the first A BETTER TOMORROW, then you'll enjoy this one even more.

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