 |  |  | | | What's the point of this movie? Imagine Young and Dangerous with all plot twists and style removed. What do you have? Zero. That's what you'll find in "Killer." It's not a good action movie. It's not much of a character study. It doesn't have much to say about the triad lifestyle. It's just people dying. As if the utter lack of content wasn't enough, the direction is truly lousy: stylized when it shouldn't be, (witness the numerous clumsy slow-motion shots) and straight-forward when it shouldn't be; who wants to see a long, static shot of Simon Lui humping away on some club girl? Very curious, since he had a hand in the script. Unless you're one of the growing number of Yoyo completists, (not difficult when she was exclusively with Milkyway, not so easy now that she's in junk like this and Super Car Criminals) there is next to nothing to recommend this film. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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| Now if you're expecting LARGE amount of bloodshed, DON'T look here!! I gotta' say I was very impressed by the poster as it looks fantastic. As for the movie...Well I didn't see there was much of a plot. It's like, we go to kill someone, then next scene they do. It just seems when a problem arises, the next scene they deal with it!! Things just happen too fast!! The movie focuses on the 'killers' in the group. Though there are 4 'killers' in the group, the main focus is on Jordan Chan & Simon LOUI's character. Jordan Chan & Simon LOUI seemed to be the only real friends in the group. Maybe because the other 2 were insignificant characters!! You hardly knew anything about them. And you always know what happens to insignificant characters....I did sit through this expect lots of fighting but that didn't occur. The action scenes are simplistic at best. The acting was good overall. Simon Lou was the better actor in this movie. The movie offers nothing new and nothing too exciting. Just a average movie at best, but I think otherwise. |
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| | | | | Director Billy Chung made some good movies this past year. Simon Loui stretch's himself from acting in just about every movie shot in HK to writing just about every movie [just kidding]. This one and Paramount Motel are 2 of my favorite HK films of 2000. Very stylish. | | LOG IN TO COMMENT ON THIS REVIEW! |
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