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Release Date: 17 June, 2003 Retail Price: $14.99 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
Fulltime Killer Reviews
ONE OF THE BEST MOVIES I HAVE EVER SEEN!
This movie is so great! This is on my top 5 movies of all time! This movie is definitely worth buying!
Style over substance
Johnny To directs with Wai Ka-Fai in this dizzying stylish gun-fest. O (Takashi Sorimahci) is the No 1 hitman in Asia. Andy Lau is Tok, a flashy, leather-cladding killer with a wealth of movie knowledge and more than some expertise with guns, trying to upstage the former from his pole position as Asia's No 1. The plot has to be taken with a pinch of salt (who'd, for example, go out with a stranger in a Bill Clinton mask? And a cop who quits just to write a story on hitmen he can't apprehend?), but the gun-touts are outstandingly bold and ultra-cool. This must be Lau's most hateful role to date, as a smirky, self-admiring, mayhem-bent killer. The backdrop itself is highly cosmopolitan: there're conversations in Japanese, Cantonese, Mandarin and English, and not everyone fares well in another tongue (Lau's and Lin's Japanese sounds especially grating). In the end, this can't be seen as more than a genre exercise by scriptwriter Wai Ka-Fai, and though this may not be the best of Johnnie To as well, its devil-may-care glitziness and refusal to be pigeonholed as standard fare may make you think twice about it.
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