City War

Oddly paced and strikingly shot, City War could have been a stone-cold classic of Hong Kong's vastly impressive line-up of heroic bloodshed actioners, unfortunately, it has to make do with writing that's painfully formulaic, extremely uneven and occasionally mindless. Yet,…

Daniel Shillito

(Chow Yun-fat, Ti Lung, Norman Chui, Lo Lieh) best possible cast for a 80's hk crime flick failed to become remarkable. Brotherhood, mob and heroic bloodshed felt too casual. As usual from the look its very well made but i didnt find anything worth remembering about this…

Adrian Oli

City War aka A Pretty Decent Tomorrow isn't a waste of time if you're jonesin' for some heroic bloodshed that reunites Hong Kong's most beloved bromance, just don't expect it to be John Woo-level.

Carlo Vanstiphout

A Sad Tomorrow. First hour is somewhat goofy and there's some jarring tonal shifts but Sun Chung added some style to it he once again shows that he's pretty competent at it too. HK streets, nightclubs, abundance of neon, an incredibly charming Chow Yun-fat and his chemistry…

Avirup

Probably my least favorite Chow Yun Fat 'heroic bloodshed' film, though it's not without its moments. Like many Hong Kong movies of the era, the tone is wildly uneven - switching gears from broad visual comedy to erotic romance and then ultimately descending into…

HKFanatic

Can't believe I put off watching this for so long. Super fun buddy cop comedy, followed by a brutal heroic bloodshed climax. Stars Ti Lung as both Lethal Weapon leads at once: family man about to retire, and a man on the edge. By rolling both those characters into one, as…

Wonggifs

There is not much going on here within the first hour. You get more dancing, flirting, and arguing than you care for: not really a city war in my book. Luckily, the finale compensates for the dull and silly moments before. It's a blood-soaked and melodramatic heroic…

Simon Lang

Let Ti Lung reign with a shotgun blast! City War is a buddy cop action film made a year after A Better Tomorrow II that for obvious reasons re-teams Chow Yun-Fat and Ti Lung. But the surprise is that Ti Lung is the hothead this time around and Yun-Fat is the cop who…

Asia the Invincible

The first half of City War is mostly Chow Yun Fat goofing around and dancing. The second half is an orgiastic neon-drenched bloodbath where *no one* is safe.  Either way, it’s a damn good time.

David Sodergren