Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

SerDelon It's the kind of movie where I like some aspects of it, but as an overall package, I didn't think it was very good.What I liked was the story - reasonably good there. The action as well was great, a bit over the top and not exactly the most realistic but it is exciting and fun to watch for sure. The music was pretty good. The characters are good as well, the main ones are all quite likable. Although the villain was a bit comical.What I didn't like? To be honest, I wasn't fan of the directing, I felt everything was rushed, almost felt like the movie was on a fast forward. There's little build up or tension or even moments where you can appreciate and absorb what is happening, it jumps from one scene to another very quickly after bits of dialogue and it got annoying fast and made me care less about what was happening.The sound as well, now I don't know the reasons behind it or whether it's only the version I was watching but the characters were all dubbed/voiced over (I'm talking about the Chinese version) which I didn't like at all.Those are my two main problems but it really took away from what I think could have been a better movie.

WakenPayne Asian action movies. I am a fan of stuff like Hero, Hard Boiled and Seven Samurai (if you can count that) So when I found this in a shop that packages rare DVD's I thought "Okay, it's Chow Yun Fat and directed by John Woo so I'll get it" and I liked it. It basically has all the clichés of "Heroes who don't play by the rules" "Villains who are petty, no development or any kind of arc" and at the end... I enjoyed it.The plot is that a hit-man who has a strong moral code (well... for a contract killer) accidentally blinds a woman on his latest contract. Feeling guilty he decides to get close to her and help her out in any way possible. While this is going on a cop who doesn't play by the rules is asked to be a bodyguard to a prominent figure - who is the hit-man's next target, after a chase between cop and hit-man the hit-man finds out he's been set up by the Triads because his identity was blown. The cop eventually finds out about him but they must team up together to kill all the triads.Basically my biggest problem with the movie is that the Triad boss's motivation is because he wants to clean up the whole "He's blown his cover" but he begins taking care of it as he's returning home. This would mean that he would prematurely know this is going on or someone found out about it, told him and he sent people after him and they got there in under 5 minutes, this is not because I missed a subtitle, in the action scene in the beginning of the movie the only survivor could not tell people what the assassin looked like.Aside from that it basically encompasses all to expect from this genre of film. The action as typical of John Woo is actually really good. The cinematography is also something to admire from this movie. Not the best but it is worth mentioning and I also think think to some extent the acting is... okay, I mean it's over the top in places - yes but that's the genre.So all of whether you'll like this movie or not boils down to if you like these types of movies. Because when you get down to it this movie is probably the best example of Hong Kong Action cinema I have seen and if you don't really like the clichés then you won't like this movie. I personally think it's half good movie half guilty pleasure (... if that makes sense) but if someone wants to see a solid enough action movie of the 80's then this is certainly going to satisfy your expectations.

WalterSoprano This film not only has balls to the wall action and gun fights but it also has a very emotional driven story which is something that you don't see with action films that often. The story follows the story of a hit man with no directly given name that on accident shot an innocent girl blind to get enough money to pay for her surgery to restore her sight he has to take one last job to do so.From here on out there is an amazing film with as I already mentioned some of the greatest gunfights every put on screen and a very emotional touching story. I recommend this film to pretty much anybody that enjoys action films and cinema in general this film is a classic that should not be overlooked.

BA_Harrison Honourable assassin Ah Jong (Chow Yun Fat) accidentally blinds pretty club singer Jenny (Sally Yeh) while carrying out a hit, but tries to make amends by taking one last job to pay for a cornea transplant for the injured girl. After Ah Jong is double crossed by Hoi, the triad boss who hired him, he finds himself forging an unlikely friendship with Li Ying (Danny Lee), the reckless cop who has been pursuing him.During the late '80s/early '90s, I attended several round-the-clock horror movie events at The Scala Cinema in King's Cross, London. One year, between movies, they screened an excerpt from a Hong Kong action flick that was so insanely violent that the usually rowdy crowd of gore-hounds fell silent in awe. The clip was from John Woo's The Killer, and it was my introduction to the glorious world of heroic bloodshed, where the line between hero and villain becomes seriously blurred, friendship, honour and redemption are common themes, and every bullet hit results in a bright red gout of blood!Featuring standout performances from Chow Yun Fat and Danny Lee, and superb direction from Woo, whose handling of his movie's emotional drama is as assured as his hyper-stylised hi-octane action scenes, The Killer remains one of the undisputed highlights of the entire bloodshed genre. The gun-play might be preposterous but it is brilliantly choreographed, with the frantic finale inside a church, which sees Ah Jong and Li Ying shooting it out against countless bad guys, bringing together all of Woo's trademarks: religious icons, balletic ballistic action, white doves, slow motion, and lots and lots of dead bodies.The film ends on a surprisingly downbeat note, which makes it an all the more powerful experience overall, one that would get full marks from me, if only I could understand how Ah Jong loses both his eyes in the final gunfight: tragically poetic it might be, but it doesn't make a whole lot of sense (if he was shot in both of his eyes, wouldn't the bullets have taken off the back of his skull?).9/10 (until someone can adequately explain Ah Jong's ocular trauma).