Bullet in the Head
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The Grandmaster: Tony Leung
April 29 - May 7
Something like The Deer Hunter by way of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, John Woo’s Vietnam War-era saga of greed and betrayal is an early showcase of Tony Leung’s movie star magnetism.
John Woo’s Vietnam War-cum-gangster saga begins amid the unrest of 1967 Hong Kong, where three friends—Ben (Tony Leung), Frank (Jacky Cheung), and Paul (Waise Lee)—skip town after a wedding-night gang fight turns deadly. Their escape plan lands them in Saigon, but its lawless war zones teeming with opportunists and profiteers pull them into an escalating spiral of greed and betrayal. Something like The Deer Hunter by way of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Bullet in the Head showcases Woo at his most ferocious and somber, whiplashing from street fights to one punishing, large-scale set piece after another while Leung’s tremulous, man-under-fire performance cuts against the surrounding pyrotechnics with an unusual magnetism, and transforms Ben’s frenzied arc into something tragically relatable.
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