Film · 1989 · Action thriller
The Killer
Directed by John Woo
1989
Hong Kong
★ 6.8 editorial score
Woo shoots gunfights the way other directors shoot musical numbers: two pistols, slow motion, doves, and underneath it a straight-faced story about honor between a hitman and the cop hunting him.
“Balletic splatter and camp sentimentality have rarely if ever been stretched to the extremes found in John Woo's movie The Killer...Set in contemporary Hong Kong, The Killer tells the story of Jeff Chow, a hired gun with a heart of gold who falls in love with a nightclub singer named Jennie, whom he has accidentally blinded during a shoot out.”
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