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The Killer (1989)
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This 1989 rouser is apocalyptic pulp--the bloodiest, showiest, most shamelessly sentimental specimen of Hong Kong's gangster melodramas. A torch singer named Jennie (Sally Yeh) is accidentally blinded during a slaying in a night club, and Chow Yun-fat's sad-eyed Jeff, a self-lacerating assassin, drags himself out of retirement to take on one last job--rubbing out a major mobster for major bucks--so he can pay for the singer's cornea transplant operation. But Jeff pauses to ferry a wounded child to the hospital during this final outing, and because of this a cop finally gets a good look at him: "He was seen on the job," snarls a saturnine Mr....
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A John Woo (Face/Off, Broken Arrow) classic starring Yun-Fat Chow (Bulletproof Monk, Curse of the Golden Flower, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End).
This is an action film with a capital A. Just imagine the last 20 minutes of Commando with Arnold and you will get a taste of the entire movie. The action only stops...
(complete The Killer review by B Movie Ben)
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(5/20/2007)