1989 · triad · heroic-bloodshed · tribute
Just Heroes
Directed by Wu Ma, John Woo1h 37m1989
A respected and well liked gang-boss is betrayed and killed. One of his three adopted sons are to take his place. One of them is the traitor.
Our read: Just Heroes (1989) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded triad · heroic-bloodshed · tribute entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme triad / heroic-bloodshed, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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