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| I love this movie. It was another one of those 'had it on VHS, MUST own it on DVD' movies.
I am usually quite critical of most movies coming from HK and find them either lame and embarassing comedies or hyper-violent action movies, but this is a true pearl I will love, forever. How can an 'anti-violence' guy love a movie about a professional female assassin (and you don't even see her naked)? Because this movie is more about the psychological impact the job has on the assassin than it is about the job itself. It's not a movie about killing. It's movie about a killer who wishes she could have a normal life, who wishes she could fall in love, share pictures and talk about life witht the guy she unfortunately is falling for. It's a beautiful, gorgeous movie that's going out in a blaze and that is praise hard to come by from an anti-gun guy like me. Gorgeous! Watch it! |
The very first film to come from Johnnie To's Milkyway Image production company, the film is a relatively standard story of a female assassin from Cambodia (Wu Chien-Lien) who meets a noodle vendor (Lau Ching-Wan) in Hong Kong. Amidst the action, the two subtley fall in love, and Wu Chien-Lien's character hopes to change her life and live peacefully with Lau Ching-Wan. However, the bodyguard of a mob boss she assassinated in Korea is out for revenge, and he tracks her down in Hong Kong, where the film culminates in a Glock-bursting finale! Overall, the film is quite a bit better than your standard female assassin film, and with some great action. It is definitely a good film to kick off Milkyway Image, however it's not as good as it gets later on from Milkyway! Produced by Johnnie To, and directed by Patrick Leung.
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