John Woo is a legendary filmmaker who hails from Hong Kong and has made some of the region’s best action movies.
Considering Hong Kong cinema is known for delivering great action movies (among other genres of course), it’s therefore safe to say that Woo has directed some of the greatest action films of all time, most notably titles like A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled.
His movies are often defined by plentiful explosions, tons of slow motion, tragic characters involved with melodramatic stories, and, of course, flocks of doves flying around for dramatic effect.
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