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Tsang Yeh as Tsang Kong. Barry Wong Chief Insp. Dou as Chief Insp. Dou …. Parkman Wong Insp. Chan Bok as Insp. Chan Bok. Chuen Chiang Shooter at beach as Shooter at beach uncredited. Chin-Hung Fan Shooter at beach as Shooter at beach uncredited.

Woon-Ling Hau Trash lady as Trash lady uncredited. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. A Hong Kong hitman accidentally blinds an innocent woman during a hit. He is determined to get her surgery to help her regain her sight but he needs to complete one more hit first. He completes the job but then is ambushed as he tries to escape: someone wants him dead. Meanwhile a resourceful, unorthodox police detective is hot on his trail.

This film will blow you away. Action Crime Drama Thriller. Rated R for strong violence. Did you know Edit. Trivia John Woo dedicated this film to Martin Scorsese.

Quotes Lee : [subtitled version] He looks determined Alternate versions The Taiwan version has a scene where it shows Jenny sitting in her dressing room while hearing the gunshots around 5 minutes into the movie. Connections Featured in Century of Cinema: Naamsaang-neuiseung User reviews Review.

Top review. Chow Yun Fat and John Woo strike again. The Killer is not your run of the mill action flick. It features characters you care about, jaw-dropping action sequences, and , best of all, Chow Yun Fat. For some people the violence and body count will seem excessive but for many it will provide the overkill that cannot be found in Hollywood, this is action in 6th gear.

For those unfamiliar with a Hong Kong Legends disc, they are normally the best in the world providing a first rate re-mastered video and audio track. They contain groundbreaking extras and dual language options. This disc is definitely up to HKL's extremely high standards and the only minor criticism would be that the interface is a touch uninspired compared for example to Iron Monkey. There are some fascinating deleted scenes and it is perhaps a shame that they haven't produced a cut with these scenes re-inserted into the film.

It seems unlikely that there will be a better single disc version of this film for a very long time. This will always be my favourite Woo and Chow Yun Fat collaboration, combining blurred moralism and loyalty to frenetic but brutal gunplay in a ballet of bloodshed.

Few people will watch this film and place it outside their top 10 action films of all time. HKL have done themselves a massive favour by getting the rights for this film off Princess Productions and also by doing such a good job on the film.

I find it hard to criticise such a competent work and its lasting influence serves as testimony to its status as a true cinematic great. The Killer. Once the gang of white tracksuit-wearing bad guys show up towards the end of the film, Woo lets rip with some incredible set-pieces in which the violent shoot-outs go on forever; death has never been painted as artistically as this before. Little touches emphasise the violence, like the church setting of the finale or Yun-Fat's white suit which gradually gets drenched in blood.

Woo reminds us of the futility of violence with a bleak and tragic ending which actually leaves you a little shell-shocked. For me, THE KILLER is close to the best on-screen realisation of Woo's career, a re-watchable masterpiece of action and drama, cleverly intertwined and always edge-of-your-seat material. SnoopyStyle 19 June Ah Jong Chow Yun-Fat is an assassin. Jenny is a lounge singer who gets caught in the crossfire and is partly blinded by Jong.

He feels responsible and rescues her from muggers. He takes another job to kill the head of a drug cartel Wong Dung-Yu. It's an intra-family assassination and the younger Wong wants to kill Jong after the job is done to clean his hands of the killing. Li Ying is a risk taking police inspector. After the assassination, Jong is in the cross-hairs but he escapes the gangsters and the police detectives.

Inspector Li is hot on his trails zeroing in on Jenny. There is a lot of John Woo action going on in this one. If one likes his style, this is a must see.

It's a lot of gun blood splattering stylized violence. Back then, it is more unusual but it's not anything special now.

He's still one of the few directors to have the dueling gun pointing scene which I'm not a great fan of. The best John Woo action is still the more realistic action.

The dueling gun pointing just speaks to a fakeness to his violence. However it's his style and one must accept it. This is one of the best HK gangster movie of the time and gave John Woo his first launching point. Hitchcoc 12 January I won't spend my time dissing this film. Because I saw it on a list of significant films, I decided to order it. I knew quickly, it wasn't my kind of movie. It takes violence to the nth degree and is almost cartoonish in its efforts. Boy these guys can shoot.

But this is a fan movie and I'm invading someone else's turf. If I watched the best of the "Fast and Furious" movies, I would find it ridiculous, but that doesn't mean they aren't well made and fulfill the wishes of their fan base. So once I put aside the fact that none of this could possibly happen, I sat back and watched. I can at least say that I have seen a John Woo film and have some understanding of his art and the Hong Kong school.

Delivers on action and on emotional depth bob the moo 4 April Jeff is a professional killer. During a hit in a night-club, he accidentally blinds a beautiful singer, Jenny. Guilt stricken Jeff becomes her guardian and falls in love with her, Jenny not knowing his past. After the job Johnny Weng who sanctioned the job decides to kill Jeff rather than pay him, however Jeff escapes. Meanwhile rouge cop Lee is put on the case with his partner. The closer the two men get they find they have much in common despite being on opposite sides of the law, leading to the two finding a common enemy.

However the repeat watch helped me uncover elements of the film that I'd forgotten over the years. Although there are several big action scenes, it is not start to finish action, instead it is quite touching and thoughtful.

The scenes between Lee and Jeff are well done and the common ground they find is more suggested than rammed down our throats.

And having said that it still is exciting and well directed. The climax to the film is soul destroying and I always thing it means that violence only leads to destruction, no matter what side you are on. Chow Yun Fat is a little less expressive in this film than others and it bothered me for a bit.

Danny Lee is OK but not as good, only towards the end does his character start to develop, plus he didn't have the screen presence of Chow. Overall this is the perfect remedy for things like Cradle 2 The Grave or Romeo Must Die or all these other films that try to copy the HK style without success.

Here Woo not only delivers on the action but also has a story and characters that have emotional depth that involves the audience. Almost 15 years old and still great by modern standards. The movie is called so, but I also use the word to describe the movie: It's a "killer" of a movie!

Chow Yun Fat has made his best movies with John Woo and one can only hope that they will work again which they attend to do this year. Before I begin my praise for this movie, I have to admit, to my shame, that when I watched it, it was one of my first HK action movies after being a regular to the Hollywood Fast Food Action restaurant and only having seen many Shaw Brothers Martial Arts movies I saw.

At the beginning I was really confused, although it's even hard for me to believe it now, but I couldn't differentiate Chow Yun Fat from Danny Lee But I was confused in a few scenes for example there is a scene, where they are cut together, doing almost the same thing, at the same place, a match cut master lesson if you will I'm still a little bit ashamed of that fact, but it's true.

So aside from this little known fact to human society, up until now , I was amazed after watching this movie. I was numb in a good way, you could say. I was paralysed, I knew I saw an extraordinary movie. In my eyes this was now the new standard to action movies.

I'm not talking about the action per se, but also about character development, values I've written them down in my Hard Boiled review , story and acting!! They might even struggle more than me, with the identification of the actors. But most just want to be entertained the "dumb" way. And it's OK, I need a dumb movie every so often, it's relaxing.

There are other things, that can be difficult, as the theatricals be it the use of slow motion, as also seen in Sam Peckinpah movies or the use of music, which some might call cheesy, myself excluded. I hope my review was helpful, in your decision making That is a good thing!

It's considered John Woo's masterpiece but boy, oh boy, I had a tough time sitting this one out to it's conclusion. It epitomizes all the things I find wrong with action movies in which good guy guns never run out of ammunition and the gore flows like water in a never ending display of bullet riddled bodies.

And speaking of which, just how many times does one have to shoot the same guy before figuring he must be dead by now? There's a double cross involved as well, and when Ah Jong is targeted by the mob instead of getting paid for a rub out, well it's off to the races to get his revenge before both the bad guys and the police put an end to his career. Maybe it was just my frame of mind while watching the picture, but I just can't relate to the effusive praise for the picture that I read from the other viewers here on IMDb.

For many, it sounds like this film set the bar pretty high for Hong Kong actioners way back in , but after almost thirty years as I write this, it comes across as an ultra-violent display of bullets and blood that doesn't merit it's accolades. I'd give it another try if I thought it would make a difference, but for right now, I'd have to say once was enough. A disillusioned assassin Chow Yun-fat accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer Sally Yeh he accidentally blinded, only to be double-crossed by his boss.

The influence is definitely there, but it seems that Woo ended up influencing another generation even more than he himself was influenced. The Tarantino connection is obvious, and indeed there could be a parallel for Besson. Can it be we owe much of our 90s action film style to s Hong Kong?

Chow's employers are refusing to pay him for the last job, which he will use to pay for Jennie's eye operation to restore her eyesight. Of course his employers, the Triads, are also the ones who are hunting Chow and soon new friend Ying down, and it all comes to a head in a final shoot-out, where Ying is shot dead.

Chan Bok. Chow is a great lead as the killer with a conscience, and with dubbing included, the swearing and violent action sequences make for great viewing. Very good! Most of the "foreign" films in my collection are slow-moving leisurely tales.

This one is the total opposite, one of the most violent movies I've ever seen. No wonder subsequent films like "Kill Bill" are made. This film definitely has the most people shot by guns, an unbelievable amount. Being a James Woo written and directed film, I guess it's no surprise. He can't get enough violence. It's also Rambo mentality at it's highest: the good guys out-kill the bad guys about to one! It's almost laughable. Yet, the story is still pretty good and generally fun to watch.

However, I don't think it's a good message - nor an accurate one - to show the "good guy," a professional killer Chow Yun Fat as the compassionate one and the guy to root for see Leon: The Professional for another example of this , but this certainly is another case of that. I am sorry, but men who make a living killing people are NOT compassionate people - they can't afford to be.

That's only in the make-believe world of films. By the end of the film, with yet another long shootout, anyone with any sensibilities will be tired of it all by then. Tweekums 24 May I saw this first several years ago on television and thought it was brilliant so when I saw it for sale on DVD I snapped it up and enjoyed watching it as much as I did the first time. If there is such a thing as a perfect action film them this is probably it.

John Woo is clearly a master of the genre and this is the best of his films that I've seen. Chow Yun-Fat plays Ah Jong, the eponymous killer who wants to do one last job in order to pay for an operation to help restore the eyesight of Jenny, a singer he accidentally blinded in a shoot out. On his trail is Insp. Li Ying, who grows to respect his quarry as the film progresses. After his final job Ah Jong finds that he also has the Triads after him as they decide they would rather kill him than pay him.

As one would expect from an action film there are lots of exciting shoot outs all of which are excellently choreographed; expect to see his trademark doves and characters standing so close to each other that their arms cross as they point pistols at each other.

The mood is lightened by some nice comic scenes, although it never resorts to the comic one liners one might expect in Hollywood action films of the time. Of course being an action film there is a certain lack of realism; guns don't run out of ammunition unless it is time to trade up to another gun and a good guy with a pistol can get the better of a dozen men with automatic weapons. This doesn't detract from the film however it is just something that goes with the genre.

The main actors were all good and made me care about the characters, as stated before the direction and Choreography were top notch. As well as his direction John Woo must be congratulated for writing such a good story. If you like action films you really need to see this, it warrants a place in the DVD collection of any such fan. These comments are based on watching the film in Cantonese with English subtitles although an English dub is available on the DVD I bought.

Honourable assassin Ah Jong Chow Yun Fat accidentally blinds pretty club singer Jenny Sally Yeh while carrying out a hit, but tries to make amends by taking one last job to pay for a cornea transplant for the injured girl.