Forget Cruise and Schwarzenegger: Why Chow Yun-Fat is cinema's greatest action hero ^78.9%

BBC Culture - By Kambole Campbell - 4/3/2026, 10:03 AM

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The Hong Kong actor made a series of films with director John Woo that revolutionised the action genre – and key to them was his beguiling mixture of toughness and tenderness. What makes an all-timer action star? Some stand out with their dexterous, daredevil stunts – think Tom Cruise in the Mission Impossible franchise. Others' chief... more