The Killer (Dip huet seung hung)
One Vicious Hitman. One Fierce Cop. Ten Thousand Bullets.
Explosive, bold and mind-blowing, The Killer is a pulse-stopping action sensation more bullet-riddled than any movie in history.
Jeffrey is The Killer, the ultimate hitman, hired by the mob for one last job. Lee is the relentless cop, a maverick whose mission is to stop The Killer at any cost. The two enemies form a strange and powerful bond that blurs the line between good and evil.
When Jeffrey is double-crossed by the mob in a blazing shootout, Lee finally picks up The Killer's trail in a church while Jeffrey's beautiful mistress is caught in the crossfire. An arsenal of automatic weapons flair in a bloody date with destiny.
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mmm - SadDadDancing
The shootouts aren't as stylized as Hard Boiled (nor is the bodycount as high) but overall, this is a more satisfying movie; the plot is more interesting and tragic, the themes are stronger and better developed, the characters are more compelling, and so forth. And the gunplay is great, as expected; seemed more rough-and-tumble than Hard Boiled, and I love how Woo uses the environments in his shootouts, in terms of how characters move around and protect themselves, and in terms of destruction.like a drama from a kid's game ... - Moir
I felt there was a high degree of unrealism to this story, a kind of skewed over surrealism of how things happened combined with the 'gory' details one might associate with a more realistic presentation, in how things were put together, how events worked out... I found the mix distracting.
It seemed to me to surf on a skewed sense of how the odds of repeated dice rolls work out - as per 'the law of large numbers' in elementary Probability theory. Ignoring this can make people wonder why in real life elite units where people can give demonstrations of incredible seeming skills can suffer such high casuality rates - even at times in training - and risk of failure, even when dealing with far less capable opponents, trying to do what seems so easy to do in movies like this one. There is a rowdy uneven 'messiness' of how the real world can jolt into the neatness of plans regardless of how competent someone may be ... . And this also shapes how people with such experience tend to look and to act and respond to things.
So it felt to me as if the director sort of 'painted'imaginatively and playfully but his colours were incidents he made up and the actors also felt a bit unreal to me in how they went through the scenario supposedly occuring in the film.
Somehow, Kurosawa, for example, in his samurai action films never makes me feel he pushes the image of reality so outrageously out of shape . ..the Definition of "Action Packed" - Jimmy_Jam
I do not think I can recall more bullets, bodies, guns, bullet holes and just sheer mayham in a film. There are some increadibly violent and brutal images in the film; the action aspect is without a doubt the main draw. As far as the other aspects of the film, they seem a bit tainted becuase of the DVD version. Apparently there are many versions, and not all the English subtitles are translated properly. The translation is deemed corny and campy, which at one time gave this extremely violent movie a comedic element. I would suggest another version of the film, or just take this as a warning. it would be much more powerful if translated properly.
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mmm - SadDadDancing
The shootouts aren't as stylized as Hard Boiled (nor is the bodycount as high) but overall, this is a more satisfying movie; the plot is more interesting and tragic, the themes are stronger and better developed, the characters are more compelling, and so forth. ...like a drama from a kid's game ... - Moir
I felt there was a high degree of unrealism to this story, a kind of skewed over surrealism of how things happened combined with the 'gory' details one might associate with a more realistic presentation, in how things were put together, how events worked out... ...the Definition of "Action Packed" - Jimmy_Jam
I do not think I can recall more bullets, bodies, guns, bullet holes and just sheer mayham in a film. There are some increadibly violent and brutal images in the film; the action aspect is without a doubt the main draw. As far as the other aspects of the film, ...