John Woo

What makes a John Woo film a John Woo film

Across 15 films, they run somewhat more violence, somewhat more tension and somewhat more melancholy than films in general. Their films resemble each other far more than any 15 films picked at random would, which is what makes one recognisable before anybody says who directed it.

The line down the middle is the average film. A bar to the right means more of that reading than films in general, to the left less. Drawn from every film of theirs in the catalogue, not a selection.