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• Once a Thief (1991)
  • In 1990, Woo formed another production company, Milestone Pictures, with producers Terence Chang and Linda Kuk.
  • Saddened by the poor reception of Bullet in the Head, he decided to return to a more commercially-appealing premise with Once a Thief (1991).
  • The film, a heist comedy starring Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, and Cherie Chung as three art thieves entangled with their crooked mentor, was shot in Nice and Hong Kong without a script.
  • It turned a profit by earning over $33.3 million HKD at the box office,
  • Woo had mixed feelings about the movie, as he felt it was nonsensical at times due to the lack of proper planning.
  • Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times liked the balance of comedy with action along with the charismatic performances of the lead actors, stating that "Once a Thief may just be the dizziest yet endearing Hong Kong caper since Peking Opera Blues."
  • At the 11th Hong Kong Film Awards, it was nominated in four categories: Best Film, Best Director (Woo), Best Actor (Chow), and Best Editing (David Wu)

References

Cited literature

• Elder, Robert K., ed. (2005). John Woo: Interviews. Conversations with Filmmakers Series. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-57806-776-3. Retrieved 2023-11-29.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
  • Elder, Robert K. "John Woo: Movie by Movie, 1968 to 1990". In Elder (2005).
  • Woo, John. "John Woo: Early Oral History". In Elder (2005).
• Heard, Christopher (2000). Ten Thousand Bullets: The Cinematic Journey of John Woo. Lone Eagle Publishing. ISBN 978-1-58065-021-2. Retrieved 2023-12-05.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
• Stokes, Lisa Odham (2007a). "Chang, Terence Jia-tsun (Zhang Jiacun) (1949–)". Historical Dictionary of Hong Kong Cinema. The Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5520-5. Retrieved 2024-04-12.{{cite encyclopedia}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)

External links

• Once a Thief at IMDb
• Once a Thief at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• Once a Thief at Letterboxd
• Once a Thief at the TCM Movie Database