One of the great action movies of its time
The Killer was director John Woo’s third action film featuring Chow Yun Fat.<br /><br />Fat plays assassin Ah Jong, Jeff in the dubbed version, who is given a job but ends up blinding a night club singer named Jennie (Sally Yeh) along the way. He feels deeply responsibile and becomes one of her fans and protector as well. Jong agrees to do more jobs to raise money for an operation to try to return Jennie’s sight. The other main character is Danny Lee who plays Detective Li Ying, Dan in the English version. He is trying to hunt down Jong. This creates a triangle between the three characters, which increases as the movie progresses.<br /><br />The movie became one of Woo’s best known because of how the scenes were posed. In one, Li finds Jong and the two pull guns on each other pointing them right at each other’s faces. This was copied by dozens of western producers afterward, and used by Woo himself when he started working for Hollywood in movies like Face/Off and Mission Impossible 2. Anyone who sees it will recognize it immediately. Some other iconic imagery were candles and white doves that would also appear in later releases.<br /><br />Personally I think The Killer is much better than A Better Tomorrow and its sequel which were bigger hits in Asia. Those two suffered from too much sentimentality and had some really cheesy family and relationship moments. Woo handled the Jong-Jennie dynamic way better in The Killer. Fat is also much more suave here than in his earlier films. Finally, the action is on a bigger scale. In one scene Jong and Jennie’s house gets assaulted by a  small army of hoods. That showed Woo’s love of bullets as his characters always used a high expenditure of ammunition.<br /><br />Overall, this movie deserves its reputation as one of the great action movies of its time.<br />C
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Here is a brief synopsis of the title : Bonded by underworld honor and obsession, a Hong Kong hit man and policeman are buddies to the end..