The movie is also filled with plenty of other interesting and backstabbing characters, cops, gangsters and fellow hit-men. You also really start to care about those characters. They have a certain respect for each other, which makes it all the more meaningful and interesting to follow.

They are like each other and also fall for the same woman (at least that was the original concept) but are on the different side of the law. The whole game and chase and the eventual teaming up between those two is done great. Yun-Fat Chow plays a great and intriguing 'good' hit-man, who is being chased by cop Danny Lee. The characters are really strong within this movie. The emotions within this movie are also really truly powerful, especially toward the ending. But it's not just a mindless action-flick, it also pays lots of attention to its story and development and interesting character building. The movie is basically non-stop action, with a lot of gun fights, explosion and fights. His action directing in this movie is really flawless. It's a typical Woo movie, which shows once more that he is a real master in making action movies. The movie was made before John Woo's coming to Hollywood but this movie already gained him some cult status in the States. The more the movie progressed, the simply better it got.

I wish more action movies would be like this! I didn't expect to love this movie as much as I did. Reviewed by Boba_Fett1138 10 / 10 Amazingly fantastic action movie filled with substance.

Practically the entire story of 'Le Samouraï' John Woo pays tribute to in this film. The first half of this movie pays homage to Melville's 'Le Samouraï': the entire premise of a hit-man falling in love with a singer to a point of risking his life due to his identity exposure, his employers double-crossing him, his relentless pursuit to get his money regardless of any escape options, and the police detectives getting close with the woman the hit-man admires because they know she'll lead him to them. He's on a mission to track down his employers and get his money - all for sake of eye surgery for a woman he blinded in a hit 6 months prior. He successes at the price of getting double-crossed and now he has a try-hard cop riding his tail. Reviewed by jimniexperience 8 / 10 John Woo homage to Melville ' Le Samouraï 'īloody Heroic Bloodshed - Featuring: beginning hit when he blinds woman, assassination hit in the oceans, shootout on the beach, standoff in hospital, standoff in woman apt, shootout in killer apartment, shootout(s) in parking garages, shootout in ocean shore hideout, and finale in the churchĪ Hit-man takes a job offer from his boss to take out a drug kingpin.

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