On the surface, Wu's A Better Tomorrow series depicts criminal gangs, seemingly in the US cops-and-gangsters tradition. But critic Peggy Chiao believes that the film-maker's ideology is much closer to that of the kungfu film.
表面上，吳宇森的《英雄本色》系列描寫幫派、黑社會，好像承襲自美國警匪片，但影評人焦雄屏認為創作者的意識型態更接近功夫片。