Very "Woo"ing Tag lines Trivia Quiz

Answer: False

"Mission Impossible 2" was the first "Mission Impossible" movie directed by John Woo. The movie's tag line was "Expect the Impossible Again" because of its relation to the first movie's tag line, which was "Expect the Impossible". As for "Mission Impossible 3", the 2006 movie's tag line was simply "The Mission Begins 05-05-06".

In the third "MI" movie, Ethan Hunt's wife was kidnapped and held captive, in order to get Ethan to bring a mysterious object, known as rabbit's foot, to his wife's kidnappers before they killed her.

Answer: Blood Brothers

This movie was released in China on August 16, 2007. The questioning tag line remained to be solved when three brothers, Kang, Hu, and Fung, became involved with the crime syndicate in Shanghai. Was blood really thicker than water, when the lives of these three brothers were turned upside down? Kang, Hu, and Fung had to decide if they loved each other enough to walk away from everything or if their life as mobsters would win out.

Answer: A Better Tomorrow

On August 2, 1986, the movie that began it all for the "A Better Tomorrow" trilogy came to theaters. "A Better Tomorrow" was the first movie that followed two brothers who were on different sides of the law. The following two movies in the trilogy were released in 1987 and 1989.

Answer: Broken Arrow

John Woo directed John Travolta and Christian Slater in their first movie role together. When Air Force Captain Riley Hale (Christian Slater) learned that his partner Major Vic Deakins (John Travolta) planned to steal two nuclear warheads attached to the plane they were flying, he and a female park ranger set out on a course to stop Vic from going ballistic with the stolen warheads. The movie was released in theaters on May 9, 1996.

Broken Arrow was a military term for the loss or detonation of one or more nuclear weapons.

Answer: All three choices are correct

John Woo directed this 1997 Travolta/Cage thriller into a success, as an agent and a killer traded faces and lives. Even though the movie had four tag lines, the primary tag line that appeared on the DVD cover was "In order to catch him, he must become him".

The tag line referred to John Travolta literally taking the face of Nicolas Cage in order to find out the location of a bomb hidden by Nicolas Cage's character and his brother.

Answer: The Replacement Killers

Mira Sorvino guest starred in the 1998 John Woo thriller called "The Replacement Killers" with Chow Yun Fat. John Lee (Chow Yun Fat) was a hit man hired to kill the son of a police officer, who was responsible for the death Chow Yun Fat's employer's son.

When John Lee couldn't kill the boy, he learned very quickly that he must either perform the task at hand or be replaced by other hit men. The orders for the new hit men would be to perform John Lee's hit and kill John Lee.

Answer: Hard Target

Jean-Claude Van Damme and Yancy Butler starred in this John Woo directed movie that was released on August 20, 1993. Chance (Van-Damme) and Natasha (Butler)were targeted by hunters out to kill them, when they discovered that Natasha's father was killed.

When Chance and Natasha were targeted by the same hunters using them as human prey, the hunters realized that Chance and Natasha weren't making it easy to be killed.

Answer: The Big Hit

On January 24, 1998, Mark Wahlberg, Louis Diamond Phillips, and Christina Applegate starred in "The Big Hit" produced by John Woo. Melvin Smiley (Mark Wahlberg) was a hit-man who tried to make a hit happen, but kidnapped the victim instead for ransom.

Unfortunately, Melvin learned that his victim was the daughter of his employer and that her father couldn't pay the ransom because he was bankrupt.

Answer: The Killer

Chow Yun-Fat starred as an assassin in this 1990 movie that John Woo directed and produced. Chow Yun-Fat was an assassin on his last kill. The money he was going to get for the hit was to care for a woman who lost her sight, after being injured during one of his kills.

Answer: True

For the second time, Nicholas Cage and Christian Slater joined forces with John Woo in this film about World War II Navajo code talkers. Nicholas Cage played Sergeant Joe Enders, who was assigned to protect a Navajo code talker from the Japanese. If caught, the Navajo code talker would be killed to keep the code from entering enemy hands. Nicholas Cage and Christian Slater had to protect the code talkers at any and all costs. "Honor was their code" was the primary tag line for the Nicholas Cage movie that aired on June 14, 2002.