The Killer (Dip huet seung hung) (1989)

25 Cornerstones of Action Cinema (25 movies items)

" A hitman and a cop find more in common than they could imagine. Besides having some of the best action scenes I've seen, at least half of The Killer's power is in its feel. It's bleak, sad, dramatic and dead serious. While Hard Boiled's action scenes were divided into three big sequences, The Killer offers respectively small action scenes here and there and finally culminates in a huge fight in a chapel. What sick bastard locates a fight like that in a chapel, anyway!? It's just an example of W"

My Brilliant and Witty 2013 Movie Diary (129 movies items)

" I've always thought John Woo's movies were pretty brainless and formulaic, but The Killer taught me otherwise (sort of). Chow Yun-Fat plays Ah Jong, a gangster whose conscience catches up with him after he accidentally wounds a nightclub singer's eyes on his final job for the Triad. He is double crossed by the bastards, falls in love with the singer and is hunted by an obsessive police detective. It's all shot very gracefully with the utmost attention to cinematography, color and visua"

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"28.4.2013 rewatch"

My Film Collection (330 movies items)

"John Woo's greatest film. The action is like ballet."

Movies Watched in 2013 (271 movies items)

"March 2nd If you decide to forget about all the boring padding that really kills any steam the movie had it's a really cool movie."