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A Better Tomorrow -- Film Review

5:54 PM PDT 10/24/2010 by Maggie Lee

John Woo's "A Better Tomorrow" is not about gangs or guns, but all about the swish of an Italian coat, the dandy way a toothpick is chewed, and the graceful arc in which its heroes (not protagonists) cock their guns.

None of these can be found in Song Hae-song's Korean remake, executive produced by Woo and his regular partner Terence Chang. In Korea, where the 1986 version has TV re-runs as ritualistically as "The Sound of Music" is aired during Christmas, under-performing box office is said to be accompanied by mobs of angry bloggers slamming it online.

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