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Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

I wanted to see a film at the height of Le Samouraï (1967), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. I was hoping to have the atmosphere and feelings of the masterpiece with Alain Delon. And this The Killer by John Woo seemed very promising at first. But in fact, after the first 5 minutes, the film becomes just an endless series of shootings, explosions and stunts. Many are even hilarious if not ridiculous. All guns have an endless number of bullets, pull indefinitely, without changing chargers. Among shootings and leaps forward, jumps back, tumbles and falls from height, many more gasps, moaning, sighs and groaning of the blind heroine or of those mobsters who are shot. Each one, many many times. Chow Yun-Fat and Danny Lee are both two nice, beautiful guys, with a lot of charisma and personality. But their stature and beautiful smile does not save the film from the mediocrity that makes me think of Bollywood melodramas type. The melancholic music, actually, the same few notes repeated throughout the film, also contribute to that. Some consider it a masterpiece and a cult film. I do not. The classics with James Cagney, Paul Muni, Lee Marvin or Jack Palance, are much better. Because they look more realistic!

Sadly, pop culture has dulled the image of Chow Yun-Fat wielding two-fisted death, but I can absolutely see how that would've been a revelation back in '89. To some extent, that is the case with most of "The Killer" (we've seen these killer moves in Western culture a hundred times over) but that doesn't mean it lacks entertainment value. Yun-Fat is a bona fide action star in this movie, and what he does with a Beretta is just artistry. Nevermind that he never reloads - what's important is that he effortlessly unleashes a hail of bullets. The same can be said for the editing, sound design and even the story; they're all in support of the action, which this surely delivers.7/10

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. After Ah Jong is double crossed by Hoi, the triad boss who hired him, he finds himself forging an unlikely friendship with Li Ying (Danny Lee), the reckless cop who has been pursuing him.During the late '80s/early '90s, I attended several round-the-clock horror movie events at The Scala Cinema in King's Cross, London. One year, between movies, they screened an excerpt from a Hong Kong action flick that was so insanely violent that the usually rowdy crowd of gore-hounds fell silent in awe. The clip was from John Woo's The Killer, and it was my introduction to the glorious world of heroic bloodshed, where the line between hero and villain becomes seriously blurred, friendship, honour and redemption are common themes, and every bullet hit results in a bright red gout of blood!Featuring standout performances from Chow Yun Fat and Danny Lee, and superb direction from Woo, whose handling of his movie's emotional drama is as assured as his hyper-stylised hi-octane action scenes, The Killer remains one of the undisputed highlights of the entire bloodshed genre. The gun-play might be preposterous but it is brilliantly choreographed, with the frantic finale inside a church, which sees Ah Jong and Li Ying shooting it out against countless bad guys, bringing together all of Woo's trademarks: religious icons, balletic ballistic action, white doves, slow motion, and lots and lots of dead bodies.The film ends on a surprisingly downbeat note, which makes it an all the more powerful experience overall, one that would get full marks from me, if only I could understand how Ah Jong loses both his eyes in the final gunfight: tragically poetic it might be, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense (if he was shot in both of his eyes, wouldn't the bullets have taken off the back of his skull?).9/10 (until someone can adequately explain Ah Jong's ocular trauma).

Now going into The Killer I expected a good movie considering it's a movie with Chow Yun-Fat movie directed by John Woo. Like any other Chow Yun-Fat and John Woo collaboration, the movie ended up being great.A disillusioned assassin (Chow Yun-Fat) accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded, only to be double-crossed by his boss. I found the story to be well paced, but some will probably complain how it's not evenly spaced out between action and drama, but they won't mind it once the movie shift into full gear and delivers the goods on it story. The story is masterfully told in my opinion and doesn't suffer from having to much action either. Even though I saw the dubbed version, I can tell you the movie still had some great lines. I got more into the story when it showed that our killer was sympathetic and caring giving him depth instead of just making him look like a cold heartless killer like other movies.The action is nothing short of spectacular as you would expect with any movie directed by John Woo. It's beautiful to watch, it's intense, it's enjoyable, and has a purpose with the story. I have to praise to Woo for his good camera work in this movie and writing what I consider to be one of the best action movie ever made. Beside the acting, I want praise the music in the movie, while it may pass viewers as they get entertain by what they see, I want to say that adds to the greatness and entertainment value for this movie.The Killer is amazing experience I would recommend for anyone. It's a great action movie that delivers the goods on the story with some of the best action sequences ever filmed. The Killer is by far one of the greatest action movie i've ever seen.