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Summary: John Woo's BEST!!
Review: First off I'm 14 not 12 like it says above this review.This is a high octane piece of action. Beautiful cinematography, great action and great shoot-outs! John Woo out did himself in this epic action piece! If you love gunfights and great acting then the Killer is a must have. It's like a violent, bloody action ballet. Like nothing I've ever seen. If you are knew to Hong Kong or foriegn cinema then this is a good place to start. And after this watch Hard Boiled another John Woo directed action film.
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Summary: LE SAMOURAI, HONG-KONG STYLE
Review: Written and directed by Hong-Kong director John Woo in 1989, THE KILLER belongs without any doubt to the ten best action movies of the eighties. Chow Yun-Fat is amazing as the sensitive hitman caring for the young woman he has accidentally wounded. The action scenes of the movie are History now, the musical score perfect for this kind of movie and the number of bullets used by the various guns totally impracticable but who cares, after all.The commentary recorded by John Woo and producer Terence Chang is highly instructive. So the suspicions that had appeared in the movie lover's attentive mind during certain scenes of THE KILLER are confirmed by the director himself. THE KILLER is an homage to director Jean-Pierre Melville's LE SAMOURAI and John Woo confesses his veneration for the french Master. At last, a director who has the guts to admit that he hasn't invented alone the cinematographic technique and who pays some respect to his predecessors. Hats off to John Woo ! As bonus features of this Criterion DVD presentation, there are deleted scenes and a theatrical trailer. Images are OK for me but the sound deceived me. A DVD zone out of stock.
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Summary: chow yun fat is truly the god ...
Review: this movie is like one of chow yun fats best movies ever, along with better tomorrow series. Chow yun fat plays a professional hitman with madd skillz, and he's also very passionate and religious.
the guy that plays the cop is in Fat's other movie called city on fire and ironically, in That movie Chow yun fat plays an undercover cop and he plays the gangsta this movie is just GANGSTA!
" you are an unusual cop" " you are an unusual killer"
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Summary: This movie has everything
Review: You laugh, you say, "Whoa cool!," you cry, but mostly you say, "whoa Cool!" Anyways...
Jeffrey (Chow) is a hired killer and is pretty cool. Until one killer evening, he accidently blinds a nightclub singer, and does one last job to pay for her eye operation. Howvever, things don't go as planned, when both sides of the law are after him. Logic does not play a big part of this movie, action does. So don't go expecting a realistic movie, instead expect a supurbly done action-drama. The last scene in the church is one for the record books. The best part of the movie (in my humble opinion of course) is when the Mary statue is blown up and this very sad music plays, very good. Another great masterpiece from the collaberation of John Woo/Chow Yun-Fat.
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Summary: The end is too bad
Review: The end of this movie was really bad. The main hero was killed, and a woman he loved remained blind because he did not get money for surgery. What kind of movie is that? Very bad. Too bad. Stay away!
On the top of this the film was under funded. Actions are very substandard. It deserves one star for a good acting of Yun-Fat Chow. I believe he is a good actor. But movie still does not worth watching.
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Summary: Hong Kong's Best
Review: Never before and never after has a movie come out of Hong Kong like this. It is director John Woo's masterpiece. What makes this movie truly awesome is the action. Unlike the action movies that came out in the United States this one makes sense. At times the story is truly brilliant. Chow Yun-Fat plays a hired killer who has accidently blinded a nightclub singer. Yun-Fat feels he must care for her and they then become romantically involved. Yun-Fat then must go on one last job, but he is hunted down by police officer Danny Lee and a strange friendship develops. What is most famous about this movie is of course the gunplay. At times the shooting would seem cartoonish, but in a way it is beautiful. Very strange to say it would seem, but it is.
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Summary: Romance Among The Bullets
Review: Yes it's true. We have a little romance to go along with all the mayhem. John Woo and Chow Yun Fat have managed to make an action hero with heart and soul. One who gets a young singer caught in a fiery gun battle with the flash burn of her eyes causing a divestating trauma for the girl and our hero. His determination to help right this awful injury and coming to care for her is a touching element to an outstanding action film. As an older woman who just recently became aware of Hong Kong action films because of Chow Yun Fat in Anna & The King, I wasn't sure I would like them. But I have to say he is so watchable that you just get caught up in the stories and overlook the excessive shooting. It is like a fairy tale - not believeable but we like them just the same. I have purchased the VHS subtitled version which is better than the dubbed version which I rented. The girls voice they have on the dubbed one is sooo irritating you want to scream. Get the one with the real voices and read - much more satisfying.
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Summary: Finding Footing
Review: This movie has all the essential elements of a John Woo movie, albeit in a nascent and underfunded manner. What is inadequate about it is made up for in recent films such as, THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS, and FACE OFF. This film is great for going back and charting how John Woo's style has grown and changed over time, and also for the great aspects he has retained. After this, watch HARD BOILED, and you'll see what I mean. That movie is simply fantastic, with a great storyline. Chow Yun Fat is the man, no doubt about it. His performance makes this movie one to remember. The movie obviously does not have the budget of a big, Hollywood production, and some of the cinematic quality and production editing suffers as a result. The story line is fairly decent, but the police bureaucrat and mob boss antagonists were so over the top and underdeveloped that they seemed silly. The assassin friend, played by Chu Kong was both well-written and performed; it's too bad he didn't get more screen time. The dubbed version isn't all that bad. The recurring theme song is about as enjoyable as Chinese water torture; luckily there's always the fast-forward button.
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Summary: The Killer
Review: This is the movie that got me started into HK movies, and I love it! The ending almost had me in tears, I was 12 at the time...this is good stuff! Very brutal, very entertaining! John Woo's old HK films rock!
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Summary: guys, come on
Review: this movie is cheese city. the worst acting and nonsense foreign production values ever.
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