Bullet in the Head

The John Woo movie is a collection of bonkers ideas that never really coalesces into a whole. Movie starts off as a mid-century youth hoodlum movie with street fights, switchblades and, for some reason, eighties shoulder padded suits. Then it becomes about Asian political unrest and protests. Then it becomes an old timey gangster film. Then it becomes a wannabe Dear Hunter or Apocalypse Now as our eighties shoulder padded suit heroes end up in a Vietnam War prison camp. And it finally ends with a suit-appropriate John Woo-tastic car-based gun duel. In other words, it tries to be too much.