Not one of Chow Yun-Fat’s proudest moments, Lie Tou (aka The Headhunter/The Long Goodbye) is a fairly average Hong Kong action thriller which is sunk by some atrocious dubbing and a talky, confusing script. Patient viewers (and fans of Chow’s future work with John Woo and Ringo Lam) will enjoy the occasional fun action scene, but there’s little here to hint at the superstar that Yun-Fat would become in the following decades. Chow stars as Nguyen (or, in the English dub.. Andy!), a former soldier and Vietnam immigrant now living in Hong Kong as a film special effects technician –
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