The Killer (DVD, 2002)

Tsui Hark

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The Killer

Sally Yeh, Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Parkman Wong, Barry Wong, Shing Fui-On, Chu Kong, Ken Tsang

John Woo

DVD

Cantonese\Chinese

2002

Widescreen, Special Collector's Edition\Feature Length Audio Commentary With Bey Logan\Trailer Archive\Art Gallery\Interview With Producer Tsui Hark And Chow Yun Fat\Interview With Sally Yeh And Kenneth Tsang\Interview With Cinematographer Peter Pau\Gallery Of Rare Deleted Scenes\Fully Animated Themed Menus

16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

General, Action & Adventure

106 Mins

18

1

Peter Pau

Rolling Stone - ...Dizzying thrills..., Film Comment - ...Woo pushes the already gonzo conventions of Hong Kong action-melodrama into the stratosphere....It's a hellzapoppin' gunfight festival..., New York Times - ...Balletic splatter and camp sentimentality have rarely if ever been stretched to [these] extremes....Outrageous..., Los Angeles Times - ...An example of the highly addictive, supercharged, go-for-broke Hong Kong cinema at its most deliberately outrageous...

In John Woo's THE KILLER, a hired assassin (Chow Yun-Fat) accidentally blinds a beautiful nightclub singer during what was supposed to be his last murder. When he falls in love with her and accepts another contract in order to finance her cornea surgery, the stage is set for a long and bloody confrontation. A boisterous bullet opera from Woo, tempered as usual with his fascination with the notion of the honorable killer and with the doubling of similar men whom circumstances have placed on opposite sides of the law. The film is very heavy on Catholic imagery and redemption motifs.

The Killer

Dolby Digital 5.1

John Woo