Synopsis
Ben, Frank, and Paul are close friends raised in the middle of Hong Kong asylum. Accidently, they kill one of the game members, and escape to vietnam with dreams of becoming a millionaire by smuggling goods. But soon their dreams are shattered in the killing fields of Vietnam and their friendship rapidly decays as they try to survive in a foreign land. Paul who will not stop at nothing to protect himself, Frank who lives as a killer after he is shot by Sehyoung and Ben who seeks revenge for his friend. The only slolution to their desperate lives is extreme violence. John Woo director is the creator of A BETTER TOMORROW and the mecca of Hong Kong action movies. Like his other action films, BULLET IN THE HEAD also has a persistent viscosity of manhood and spectacular gunfighting actions. However, unlike his other action movies, this film focuses more on the horror of the Tianemin Square massacre and the shaky fate of Hong Kong after its reversion to China. Even though the film is shot in Communist Vietnam. The film projects the people of Hong Kong obsessed with the image of a young man standing in front of a tank and fate of Hong Kong Peoples rights as a woman’s corpse is flowing in a river. John Woo transformed himself into a successful action filmmaker in Hollywood way before Hong Kong’s restitution in July of this year. What the director worried the most became reality and this edition title is the directors version which is 30 minutes longer than what was originally shown in 1991.