Bullet in the Head
Original title: Dip huet gai tau
“Once The Best of Friends, Now The Worst of... Enemies!”
1990 · 2 h 16 min
Directed by 
John Woo
John WooCast
Tony Leung 
Jacky Cheung 
Waise Lee
Plot
Three friends in Vietnam.
Sinekatalog’s take
John Woo's sprawling Hong Kong war-crime epic follows three friends from 1960s Hong Kong into Vietnam. Operatic, brutal and emotional, it is among Woo's most ambitious and haunting works.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.5 / 10 (13,679 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
If you liked this
Picked by director, genre, era and shared cast. Titles only, no spoilers.
- A Better Tomorrow 1986 · John Woo · IMDb 7.4 · Same director
- The Killer 1989 · John Woo · IMDb 7.7 · Same director
- Casualties of War 1989 · Brian De Palma · IMDb 7.1 · Similar genres
- Running Out of Time 1999 · Johnnie To · IMDb 7.3 · Same movement
- PTU 2003 · Johnnie To · IMDb 7.0 · Same movement
- Platoon 1986 · Oliver Stone · IMDb 8.0 · Viewers also liked