A great set it is too Gojirosan. :nod:

That's music to my ears, reaps! All I need now is for the postie to deliver the damn thing!!

Had Leon through this morning. I'll be giving that one a watch over the weekend. :)

just ordered these on amazon.

Scanners
Darkman trilogy
Operation condor 2
Krull
Truck Turner
Triple Cross (Sonny Chiba)
YAKUZA boxset.
(contains Graveyard of Honor, Cops Vs Thugs and Japan Organised Crime Boss)

25 quid the lot.

"Watchmen" - 'Ultimate Cut'. 5 disc box.

Just placed me order for The New York Ripper blu :)
Should have it in a week.

Couldn't agree more DoA! Bullet in the Head is truly epic, with some incredible sequences. I know it's not Woo but Tsui Hark's A Better Tomorrow 3 is an enjoyable movie also.

"ABT 3" is a better movie than "ABT 2" for me.
"ABT 2" is so stupendously silly and unintentionally funny. Woo almost went too far. It's more like a 'party clips' movie.

The end is a superbly crafted slice of Heroic Bloodshed, but Woo messes up on any serious aspect (unlike the first film) in the cartoon way the main characters take massive injury and keep on going. It's the HK version of Monty Python's "Grail" 'Black Knight'.
The silly twin brother plot (a desperate attempt to get Chow back, but it shows how good Chow is as despite looks the characters are actually quite different) and the 'stop dying for a second you haven't finished deciding' phone call scene sum up the dodgy plot and unintentional silliness.

As a clip film for parties (or as an example of HK gunplay) it's fine...but as an actual movie it's not that good and for me...(and Woo agrees)...It's his worst non-Hollywood film.

Whereas I agree on "Bullet". The rather OTT finale aside (a controversial aspect of the film's production history) it's a well crafted, serious, piece of movie making.

But I think "The Killer" is just perhaps Woo's best film (massive overload of typical Chines melodrama included).

"Hard Boiled" fails plot and character wise (not one likeable character to be seen...even Tequila is not that likeable) but as an action film it's stunning. But it kind of plays like Woo's resume for Hollywood (who ironically then stopped him from doing anything as good, well crafted, violent, or boundary pushing action wise. Which is surely why they gave him a job in the first place!).

Very true, the ABT2 trailer is more entertaining than the full film.

Great film! :thumb: Used to watch it all the time when I was a kid. :biggrin:

I'm hoping mine has arrived today, or arrives tomorrow!! :thumb: