In this explosive precursor to his breakout film A Better Tomorrow, director John Woo demonstrates the genesis of his trademark style of hyperkinetic action and violence in Heroes Shed No Tears.
From bloody squibs, burnings and beheadings, Heroes Shed No Tears holds nothing back in its onslaught of impressively staged combat.
…one would be doing themselves an injustice in not checking out this early but highly entertaining action flick from the director,” and TV Guide called this first contemporary John Woo action film “an entertaining bloodbath.”
The action movie that he identifies as his “first real film” broke a string of low-budget slapstick farces, and built the foundation for his over-the-top genre films that would follow.