BULLET IN THE HEAD is John Woo's epic, a gripping, unnerving, and ultimately exhausting story exploring the director's customary themes of friendship, honor, and betrayal in the context of the Vietnam War.
Hong Kong, 1967. Handsome, romantic Ben (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) is happily engaged to his sweetheart, Jane (Fennie Yeun). When his bosom friends, clownish Frank (Jacky Cheung) and bitterly ambitious Paul (Waise Lee), kill a local gangster, the trio look for an opportunity to get out of town and
make big money. They agree to deliver medicine and Rolexes to a Saigon crime lord. Upon their arrival in war-torn Vietnam, however, a terrorist attack destroys the merc...
Released:
1990
Rated:
NR
Length:
136 mins