Synopsis
Professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin; hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's life with a mission to unveil O's identity and usurp his place as the number one sharp-shooting assassin in the game.
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Cast
- Andy LauLok Tok-Wah
- Takashi SorimachiO
- Simon YamAlbert Lee
- Kelly LinChin
- Cherrie Ying Choi-YiGigi
- Lam SuetFat Ice
- Teddy LinC7
- Patrick Ling Chi-HungBodyguard
- Choi Kwok-KeungBodyguard
- Ching Kwok-LeungBodyguard
Recommendations
- 83
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Underworld opera of the bravura kind, this is driven, like most Hong Kong action, more by emotion than logic. - 80
Film Threat
Exciting, but not completely original. - 75
New York Post
The story won't win any prizes for coherence, but that doesn't much matter. As in most Hong Kong thrillers, it's the visuals - love those boldly choreographed shootouts! -- and moments of absurdity that count. - 63
Boston Globe
Filmed with panache, wit, chic amorality, and an inexhaustible supply of Micro Uzi ammunition, ''Killer'' nevertheless represents a baroque dead end for the Hong Kong action genre. - 60
Village Voice
There's plenty to enjoy -- in no small part thanks to Lau. - 60
TV Guide Magazine
The film is filled with the kind of choreographed carnage that became synonymous with Hong Kong action during the genre's heyday, but there's an elegiac self-consciousness to it all that acknowledges that while the best is behind us, there's still something to be said about its passing. - 60
Variety
High-octane plunge into pop gangster psychology. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
The story matters less than the style, full of swooping camera movements, rapid-fire editing, and color-drenched displays of violence the Hong Kong school is famous for.
