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Summary: Starts out interesting and ends a little weak.
Review: At first the film is very promising. However, towards the end it just fades. The movie paces itself nicely throughout the movie using John Woo's old style elements to accomplish beautiful screenplay, directing, and artful action. Somehow it just changes towards 3/4's way into the film. I feel the director just had a hardtime ending it and simply ended it very awkwardly. It's like he had a good idea and doesnt know how to finish it. The dialogue is really neat and the action is even more impressive utilizing John Woo's old style to give us a refreshing screen play that is gone in Woo's new style of film making as we can see when he arrived to America. John Woo's style has dimished with each passing film and at least this director brings back old memories.Pros:
-nice screenplay
-interesting dialogue
-artful action
-great use of coreography and filming quality is great Cons:
-as the film progressed the movie slows down
-muffled storyline, confusing plot
-strange use of languages make it hard to focus on the characters. The movie shifts from cantonese to english to chinese without reason. (the japanese language used by the characters has a point to the movie so I wont complain about its usage).
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Summary: Watch it only if you are a hardcore HK movie fan
Review: Doesn't even come close to a John Woo, Ringo Lam or Tsui Hark film. Some interesting action sequences though - the opening is excellent. I found Andy Lau's acting a little over the top. Also, it seemed that every character was coincidentally related to another character in several ways. 2 rival assasins and one assasin's boss is the brother of the other assasin? A few of these I'll buy but there were way too many unexplained coincidences. I would have preferred a longer film that probed more info the relationships. Don't bother with this unless you are die hard HK fan - there are much better HK films out there.
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Summary: Not Bad Actioner, But Definitely NOT the Best Of Johnny To
Review: Excuse me for giving only three stars for this film, for I know "Fulltime Killer" is, good as it is, NOT the best of Johnny To, a Hong Kong director whose intense style is not be missed. His best remains "Running Out of Time" (starring the same cool Andy Lau), or "The Mission," especially the latter one. See them first, and remember his name. "Fulltime Killer" is in fact co-directed with Wai Ka Fai, but the subdued style is definitely that of Johnny To. The film traces the two free-lance killers, "O" (Takashi Sorimachi, popular Japanese actor), and Tok (Lau). O is the top dog of the killers, but Tok, confident of his professional skills, wants to bring him down in his own style. In between comes a female cleak working at a rental video store (beside the escalator which was shown in one famous Hong Kong film), Chin (Kelly Lin), and the determined policeman Lee (veteran Simon Yam). The gun action of the film is an average one, but sadly, as the story lacks coherent developing, it is often hard to follow what is going on. Johhny To's cool style and oddball humor are not given much chance to be shown, and the result is curiously devoid of tension, even though the actions themselves are decetly done. Some people might find the languages it uses slightly troublesome, for Andy Lau often speaks Japanese, which is very hard to understand (I am a Japanese, and watched it in the origiunal language). But more lamentable thing is the lack of charisma of Sorimachi as "O" whose one-dimentional performance as a killer with a heart lacks convincing power. And as for Andy Lau, he was much better in "Running Out of Time." The film is a result of recent Hong Kong film industry, which tries to capitalize on the name of Japanese actors who are gaining popularity in Hong Kong. But I think the casting here has backfired. I do not say "Fulltime Killer" is bad. I only say you can get better ones from To, underrated Hong KOng filmmaker, and that is "The Mission" which you should see first.
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Summary: Not Bad Actioner, But Definitely NOT the Best Of Johnny To
Review: Excuse me for giving only three stars for this film, for I know "Fulltime Killer" is, good as it is, NOT the best of Johnny To, a Hong Kong director whose intense style is not be missed. His best remains "Running Out of Time" (starring the same cool Andy Lau), or "The Mission," especially the latter one. See them first, and remember his name. "Fulltime Killer" is in fact co-directed with Wai Ka Fai, but the subdued style is definitely that of Johnny To. The film traces the two free-lance killers, "O" (Takashi Sorimachi, popular Japanese actor), and Tok (Lau). O is the top dog of the killers, but Tok, confident of his professional skills, wants to bring him down in his own style. In between comes a female cleak working at a rental video store (beside the escalator which was shown in one famous Hong Kong film), Chin (Kelly Lin), and the determined policeman Lee (veteran Simon Yam). The gun action of the film is an average one, but sadly, as the story lacks coherent developing, it is often hard to follow what is going on. Johhny To's cool style and oddball humor are not given much chance to be shown, and the result is curiously devoid of tension, even though the actions themselves are decetly done. Some people might find the languages it uses slightly troublesome, for Andy Lau often speaks Japanese, which is very hard to understand (I am a Japanese, and watched it in the origiunal language). But more lamentable thing is the lack of charisma of Sorimachi as "O" whose one-dimentional performance as a killer with a heart lacks convincing power. And as for Andy Lau, he was much better in "Running Out of Time." The film is a result of recent Hong Kong film industry, which tries to capitalize on the name of Japanese actors who are gaining popularity in Hong Kong. But I think the casting here has backfired. I do not say "Fulltime Killer" is bad. I only say you can get better ones from To, underrated Hong KOng filmmaker, and that is "The Mission" which you should see first.
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Summary: Beats You With A Stick
Review: Full Time Killer is teh win. It steals your megahertz. Stop teh hacks. ii omoshiroite desu yo!
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Summary: Question
Review: Hong Kong cinema was cool before the days of The Matrix. This movie has a lot of the old feel and some very cool scenes reminiscent of other great action flicks like Bullet in the Head and Brother. However, it feels as though the director was worried viewers wouldn't buy the movie unless it had some mindless and useless CGI effects. The insertion of these feels contrived and forced. Aside from these few trivial flaws, this film boasts some awesome characters (Takashi Sorimachi is way cool) and the women are super hot. Man, how I wish all cops looked like the girl in this movie!! Hong Kongese English is a bear to understand, but dialog is secondary. The shoot-em-up scenes are some of the best. I do agree with other reviewers that the ending seems disjointed. It gets a bit Ecks vs. Severlike at about the 75 minute mark. Overall, a good rent. Check it out, and then make the call to plunk down your hard earned $13 bucks or so for a copy of your own.
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Summary: Style over substance
Review: Johnny To directs with Wai Ka-Fai in this dizzying stylish gun-fest. O (Takashi Sorimahci) is the No 1 hitman in Asia. Andy Lau is Tok, a flashy, leather-cladding killer with a wealth of movie knowledge (know Leon?) and more than some expertise with guns, who tries to upstage the former from his pole position as Asia's No 1. The plot has to be taken with a pinch of salt (who'd would go out with a stranger in a Bill Clinton mask? And a cop who quits to write a hitmen story?), but the gun-touts are outstandingly bold (reminiscent of The Killer) and ultra-cool. This must be Lau's most hateful role to date, as a smirky, self-admiring, mayhem-bent killer. The backdrop itself is highly cosmopolitan: there're conversations in Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin and English, and not everyone fares well in another tongue (Lau's and Lin's Japanese sounds especially grating). In the end, this can't be seen as more than a genre exercise by scriptwriter Wai Ka-Fai, and though this may not be the best of Johnnie To as well, its devil-may-care glitziness and refusal to be pigeonholed as standard fare may make you think twice about it.
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Summary: Name of the Song
Review: The song in the movie is by Marni And The Men, written by Marni Bacharier...you can find more about them at http://www.tutton.org/marni.html
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN!
Review: This movie is so great! This is on my top 5 movies of all time! This movie is definitely worth buying!
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Summary: My first asian flick...
Review: This was a great movie. It took a little "getting used to" with the subtitles, but after a while the movie just took off. While I am certain that words are important, what these characters tell you in body language and action is just as impressive. And the scenery is to die for. I am so happy I purchased this DVD. The picture is crystal clear, the images are great and filled with clear color, no over saturation. The sound is also great. You get some previews and trailers with the DVD and some special features. A great DVD to add to my collection.
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