| Overview: | Co-directors Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai reimagined the bullet ballet genre with a series of films made under the Milkyway Image Productions banner between 1997-1999. Then they turned their attention to lighter, more populist comedies such as Needing You and this summer's Love on a Diet. Now they have returned to the world of smoking guns and bullet-riddled bodies.
Two killers are pitted against each other, highlighting their different approaches to the assassination game. Andy Lau essays Tok, an ambitious and glamorous professional; Takashai Sorimachi plays the haunted O, a killer who likes to fly under the radar and suffers a lonely lifestyle as a result. Their lives inevitably intersect as the tale progresses. Kelly Lam portrays Chin, a seemingly self-effacing video store clerk who picks up extra cash by cleaning O's apartment. Of course, you can't have criminals without police chasing them, and Simon Yam embodies Lee, a well-respected Interpol inspector who becomes obsessed with the two assassins as he pursues them through a multitude of locales. Also featured are Cherrie Ying as Gigi, a junior Interpol inspector, and Teddy Lin as C7, Tok's brother and also the "manager" for O.
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