Wonderful character development!

Who payed the critics

That was an excellent one.

Masterful Movie

Pretty darn cool shoot-'em-up, and Chow Yun-Fat owns the role of the assassin! Lots of bullets fired in this, and a very high body count! I really liked the scenes that were interspliced with different scenes. I didn't like the freeze frames, slo-motion overkill, and the flash backs to things that literally just happened! I also find it strange that everyone is so easy to follow in this movie. Can't anyone lose a tail? I liked the ending, especially Jenny and Ah Jong crawling away from each other. Powerful.

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.

Probably one of the best solo films you should watch if you're interested in finding out what John Woo is all about. The Killer is one of the best known and most highly regarded Hong Kong action films and helped to put John Woo on the map, as well as working as an inspiration for film makers such as Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez. And you can definitely see how they have drawn influences from its stylistic carnage, cool under pressure characters and just from its general modern day as inhabited by people larger than life setting.The story goes that Ah Jong (once again played by Chow Yun-fat) is an assassin, who during his supposed last job permanently injures a beautiful singer (Sally Yeh), rendering her almost completely blind. Wrecked by guilt, he appoints himself her protector, but things get complicated when his former boss wants him permanently dealt with and he also has to do one more job to get enough money to get her eyes fixed.The story is not overly complicated, but it has enough substance that we get a few good character scenes and dialogues from it. But what really makes this film worth watching is its action scenes. John Woo is a fantastic action director and his gun battles are some of the best in cinema history. You feel each bullet hit, the sounds the guns make are fantastic and the scenes are choreographed beautifully. Definitely a feast for your eyes, if heavy fatality massacre is your thing.And that's about all that can be said about the film. Could the story have been better? Yes, definitely, but that still makes the film "merely" good instead of great. Perhaps you won't remember any of the characters all that clearly after some time, but you will definitely remember the action scenes and all the creative ways people get shot and slaughtered. And sometimes that's enough.

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.