Heroes Shed No Tears

Heroes Shed No Tears (1984) is an early Hong Kong action film you can watch online on iFILM, one of John Woo's first genre features. A squad of Chinese mercenaries takes a Thai government contract: go into the Golden Triangle and bring back a powerful drug lord.

They pull it off. Getting home is where it falls apart. The mercenaries find themselves hunted by the drug lord's private forces and by a bitter Thai officer pursuing them for his own reasons, outnumbered and running out of options. Woo hadn't yet refined the slow-motion gun choreography of The Killer, but the stripped-down pressure and the sense of a squad burning down from the edges are already his. Stream Heroes Shed No Tears (1984) on iFILM.