Product Details

• Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Andy Lau, Alex Man (II), Pauline Wong, Carina Lau
• Directors: Taylor Wong
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Cantonese, Spanish
• Subtitles: English
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Tai Seng
• DVD Release Date: September 26, 2000
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004W5TY
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #117,731 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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  #35 in	Movies & TV > Art House & International > Asian Cinema > Hong Kong > Cops & Triads
  #39 in	Movies & TV > Action & Adventure > Hong Kong Action > Lau, Andy
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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
There's some extravagant bloody gunplay, but not much else of interest, in this superior 1987 sequel to Rich & Famous. The new film picks up the story of intramural Chinese Mafia conflict six years later. Fortunately, Chow Yun-fat's character, Chai, comes to the fore in part 2, giving the star a chance to replay his suffering-nobility number from John Woo's A Better Tomorrow. After returning from his self-imposed retirement from gang life, he is stripped of all his worldly goods in agonizingly slow stages, so that he can exact total revenge in a flamboyant Scarface-style siege on the bad guy's fortress headquarters. The underlying theme of "masoch-ismo" that runs through the Chinese gunplay films has rarely been as lavishly indulged. Everybody survives a staggering number of bullet hits in this movie--especially Chow, who must get shot 30 times during the climactic battle sequence alone, yet remains standing. Only Woo's A Better Tomorrow II uses up more blood squibs per foot of celluloid. --David Chute

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 stars Classic HK Gangster film, February 25, 2009

By	J. Stewart "Stewpeaz" (Hartford,CT USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

To start I was searching for this movie for about 2 years , after seeing the first movie Rich & Famous. Finally I found it here, and it was worth the wait . I was not disappointed . I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes HK gangster movies. Plenty of Bullets and bloodshed with a good touch of drama makes Tragic Hero a great watch.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Exciting finale, little else., July 23, 1999

By	Brendan Klein (philadelphia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Tragic Hero [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I saw this film in the theatre on a Chow yun fat film festival. I found the film very amateureshly written. I know action films suspend belief, but this was ridiculous (a woman gets shot in the head, but dosen't die for about 7 minutes, chow recieves over 30 bullet hits in the filnale, but survives.) The story itself was intriguing, but the gun battles were ver outlandish, and out of place (shing fui on's demise is particularly laughable). I can take many stupid violent films of the eighties (AMerican" Lethal Weapon, HK: Tiger on beat), but this one goes too far. It should have stuck with it's story, and not tried try solely to live up to the better tomorrow body count. Danny Lee has a particularly good cameo.

1 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Tragic Hero, May 26, 2001

By	Ning Pan (Salt Lake City, UT USA) - See all my reviews

I want to know the languages it has mandarin.