A Better Tomorrow 2018

2018 [CHINESE]

Action / Crime / Drama

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 95%
IMDb Rating 4.9/10 10 567 567

prison smuggling (contraband) brother brotherhood

Plot summary

A former smuggler attempts to start his life anew and repair his relationship with his estranged brother after his release from prison.

Director

Sheng Ding Photo
Sheng Ding

Top cast

Eric Tsang Photo
Eric Tsang as Prisoner
Talu Wang Photo
Talu Wang as Ma Ke
Suet Lam Photo
Suet Lam as Ha Ge
Yue Wu Photo
Yue Wu as Pi Jin
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.02 GB
1280*538
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
1 hr 53 min
Seeds 1
2.1 GB
1904*800
Chinese 5.1
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
1 hr 53 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by MovieIQTest

The usual suspects still there

What made me feel uncomfortable again about this Chinese movie was the ridiculous script about putting the Chinese police force to carry out missions on foreign soil. We know that the Chinese communist government has something similar to American's FBI and DEA, issuing some kinda "Red Warrant" to catch some Chinese criminals abroad and bring them back to China. But such warrant has not sanctioned or legalized by almost every foreign governments, so it'd carry out under the radar of the foreign authorities.But what we saw at the very beginning in this film was not what it should be or shouldn't be. A bunch of Chinese plain-cloth detectives, most of them were too young to be convinced easily qualified as detectives, they openly used firepower trying to catch some dubious Chinese criminals in an European city, looked more like in Italy since all the roofs were red-clay tiles.Then when the camera lens shifted, we saw the Chinese smugglers trying to do business in Japan. We saw a very bad Taiwanese actor acting like an annoying clown, a sidekick to a cool Chinese veteran smuggler. At that moment, the usual formulaic Chinese movie production had become so obvious, readily kicked in again: The Chinese screenplays, no matter what, doing good or doing bad, got to be in foreign countries, on foreign soil. Well, I'm just so tired of this kinda unrealistic phony Chinese movies.
Reviewed by ChandlerHammer 7 / 10

A Modern Take On A Classic John Woo Movie

This movie feels a lot like the original "A Better Tomorrow" (Because it takes heavy inspiration off of it from score to plot) which gives us a nice more modern approach to the classic story. While it isn't as good as the original, it redoes classic scenes that you'll notices and recognize if you came into this movie after watching John Woo's movie. This movie does have a lot more fun with it's sidekick brother character which honestly is a nice feeling change to the story.
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