Heroes Shed No Tears (1986) ***

John Woo's Heroes Shed No Tears (Ying Xiong Wei Lei) (1986) is a crazy action/war film that pits a group of mercenaries against a drug lord and his henchmen. Tonally it's all over the place—some scenes are highly dramatic, some are brutally violent and exploitative, and some are straight out comedic (and frankly silly)—but that definitely gives the movie a certain charm. Woo has disassociated himself from Heroes, partly due to the fact that he didn't shoot some of the scenes (such as the comedic ones mentioned before, which the studio had shot and added later), but it's never not entertaining (particularly the action scenes).