Circa 1967. Inseparable childhood hoods plan to make millions smuggling contraband into Vietnam, but a pretty girl and a chest of gold bullion complicate things. The Vietnam prison camp sequences make similar scenes from The Deerhunter seem pale. Lotsa loud explosions, gunplay, and man-to-man emoting show off John Woo's hemoglobin-intensive brand of melodrama.

(3/4)



[Reviewed by Steve Spinali]