喋血双雄

要想明白吴宇森和周润发合作的这部影片为何能够超越两人合作的另外两部在风格上更有成就的影片《喋血双雄》和《辣手神探》而成功获得一代人的关注，可能就相当于追溯香港的影迷历史。

To understand how this particular John Woo-Chow Yun-fat collaboration - instead of their more stylistically accomplished The Killer or Hard Boiled - captured the imaginations of a generation is perhaps to chart the history of cinephilia in Hong Kong .

尽管《赤壁》被誉为吴宇森在好莱坞发展后的“归家之作”后，但对其香港作品崇拜的坚定追随者正不遗余力地挖掘自身的热血豪情和盛气凌人的男子气概，诚如《英雄本色》或《喋血双雄》中的子弹芭蕾。

Although this is hailed as Woo 's " homecoming " after his Hollywood tenure , hardcore disciples of his Hong Kong oeuvre will be straining hard to find the all-stops-out passion and sinewy machismo that ignited his bullet ballets such as " A Better Tomorrow " or " The Killer . "