Hard Target

...the back wall of the theater simply to prove that he can. And in the six Hollywood movies he directed between 1993 and 2003 - "Hard Target" (1993), "Broken Arrow" (1996), "Face/Off" (1997), "Mission: Impossible 2" (2000), "Windtalkers"...

In this article: John Woo, Red Cliff, Windtalkers, Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, John Wayne, Hong Kong, Encumbrance, and World War II

...IN THE HEAD and HARD BOILED. When Woo made his way to America, I was both thrilled and nervous. Would America ruin a good thing? HARD TARGET, BROKEN ARROW (the film that gave this site its name), and FACE/OFF seemed to show a real sense of...

In this article: John Woo, Red Cliff, The Killer, Hollywood, Broken Arrow, The Art of War, Zhuge Liang, Asia, and Le Samourai

...went as far as he could go in Hong Kong with "Hard-Boiled," he relocated to Los Angeles and took a job directing a Jean-Claude Van Damme film, "Hard Target." He had some notable box-office successes - the Nicolas Cage-John Travolta thriller...

In this article: John Woo, Red Cliff, Hollywood, Uma Thurman, Hong Kong, Trademark, World War II, Jean-Pierre Melville, Nicolas Cage, and Tom Cruise

Director John Woo's career in Hollywood began with the 1993 Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Hard Target, and went on to encompass such massive hits as Mission: Impossible 2 and Face/Off. Now, after fifteen years of toiling in the Hollywood...

In this article: Red Cliff, John Woo, Hollywood, Asia, Hong Kong, China, Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Face/Off

Hard Target: Zhang Fengyi plays the martially inclined prime minister Cao Cao in a battle epic that makes Zack Snyder's 300 look unambitious - and that lets some character-building get lost amid the sweep of history. Rated R: Bloody...

In this article: John Woo, Cao Cao, Red Cliff, Zhou Yu, Zhuge Liang, Hard Boiled, Zhang Fengyi, Takeshi Kaneshiro, and House of Flying Daggers

...last in Hollywood before throwing in the towel. Beginning in earnest with an above-average Jean-Claude Van Damme programmer (Hard Target), Woo then produced one decent facsimile of his hyperkinetic Hong Kong neo-noirs (Face/Off), rose to the...

In this article: John Woo, Red Cliff, Sun Quan, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang, Zhao Wei, Hard Boiled, and China

...a cast of thousands of men and horses. Woo found it was much easier to work in China than in Hollywood, where his blockbusters include "Hard Target" (1993), with Jean-Claude Van Damme; "Face/Off" (1997), featuring John Travolta and...

In this article: John Woo, Red Cliff, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Chow Yun-Fat, China, Hollywood, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Mission: Impossible II

...that Binder's father has died at the hands of wealthy sportsman Emil Fouchon who hunts homeless men as a form of recreation. Hard Target was John Woo's first American film and was also the first major Hollywood film made by a Chinese...

In this article: John Woo, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Universal, Lance Henriksen, Chuck Pfarrer, and Motion Picture Association of America

...following year, he starred in the late Stan Winston's wonderful PUMPKINHEAD. Henricksen starred in John Woo's first U.S. production, HARD TARGET; in Sam Raimi's THE QUICK AND THE DEAD; in Walter Hill's underrated JOHNNY HANDSOME; Jim...

In this article: Stan Winston, Ed Harris, John Woo, Jim Jarmusch, New York, Steven Spielberg, and Sam Raimi

...doubt anyone will see The Dark Knight this summer without feeling a little spooked. The haunted quality of Hard Target ultimately works in the film's favor, lending a superior genre film an added level of social satire and a sharp political...

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