| When a contract killer relinquishes his trigger finger after being hired by a ruthless Chinese crimeboss to kill the son of the cop who shot his own son during a botched bust, he is forced to fight his way out of the criminal underworld with the hopes of retrieving a passport back to China, with the help of a sassy forgery artist in order to return to exile by his family's side.
Featuring a well-assembled cast including Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Clifton Collins Jr., Kenneth Tsang, Carlos Gómez, Jürgen Prochnow, and introducing Hong Kong action star Chow Yun-Fat, "The Replacement Killers" is an electrifying motion picture event that redefines the standard for bullet ballet sub-genre in Hollywood action cinema. Director Antoine Fuqua exhumes the very essentials that were needed in order for the film to work the way it does, exploring the many mechanics of previous "heroic bloodshed" types of Hong Kong movies like The Killer, A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled, all of which highlight Yun-Fat's prominent acting career, and are all directed by one of the film's executive producers, acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker John Woo.
Any fan of Hong Kong action cinema will see how truly absorbed the director and the cast become in bringing this motion picture event to the big screen, and ultimately launch Chow Yun-Fat into international superstardom.
If you love action, the "The Replacement Killers" is a hit not to be missed!
OTHER RECOMMENDATIONS: "The Killer", "Hard Boiled", "Time And Tide", "Beyond Hypothermia", "The Transporter", "2009: Lost Memories", "Face/Off", "So Close", "Shoot Em' Up", "Xavier Gens's 'Hitman'", "Equilibrium", "Drive: Director's Cut", "Elektra", "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever", "Desperado", "Once Upon A Time In Mexico", "Hard Target", "The Art Of War", "Bangkok Dangerous", "The Crow" and "Killer Bean Forever". |
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