Bullet in the Head

Bullet in the Head (喋血街頭, 1990) — watch online on iFILM. John Woo's Hong Kong war thriller starring Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and Jacky Cheung: three friends who chased easy money into one of history's ugliest wars.

It's 1967. Three men from the back streets of Hong Kong flee to Saigon after a killing goes wrong at home. They figure a war-torn city is easy pickings. Within days they're caught between the local mob, communist patrols, and a prisoner cage that changes all three of them. Saigon strips away everything — including whatever they thought they knew about each other.

Woo called this his most personal film. At 136 minutes it is also his hardest: none of the slow-motion elegance, all of the consequence. Stream Bullet in the Head (1990) on iFILM.