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I first watched the killer on recommendation i thought i would hate it...how wrong i was.It was obvious i was watching a classic from the opening credits with a lingering shot of hong kong and a somewhat sad tune playing in... Full review

At the time movies were punching bags such as the films Arnold put out. The killer revolutionized the merging of Kung Fu with action films. The cuts and special edits made American cinema look like a piece of trash. John Woo's... Full review

Some films focus on action to draw their thrills, others put the emphasis on drama and character interaction to draw theirs; The Killer manages to do both, seemingly effortlessly. You would think that in a pure action movie, the drama would... Full review

John Woo's "The Killer" shows a master at the height of his powers. Woo, today working in the United States, gained fame in Hong Kong through the two "Better Tomorrow" films. He became popular and used his success to go to... Full review

First of all, I am disgusted by some of these reviews. Modern action has been overrun by special effects and stuntmen with death wishes (not that I'm complaining), but one must consider the time and the place. It's not the world... Full review

The Killer is widely regarded as John Woo's best all round film, and makes an appearance on an extraordinary number of people's Top 10 lists. This may be because it was the first Hong Kong movie a lot of people saw,... Full review

Of all John Woo's bullet-ridden action movies, this is his greatest. You see many of Mr. Woo's "trademarks" (flying doves, reflections in mirrors, very strong Catholic symbolism) that appear in his inferior American directed films (save Face Off) first in this... Full review

Warning for an action-film lovers: after John Woo's totally brilliant ultra-violent masterpiece "Die xue shuang xiong /The Killer", American action movie is not worth one penny. It's so great and extraordinary words can't simply describe it! I watched it twice on... Full review

Before seeing a genuine Hong-Kong produced John Woo movie, I thought I knew what action was, and what the action-movie genre was capable of. I was wrong. The Killer was the single most impressive, awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping action movie I had seen... Full review

everyone says it is the best of the Hong Kong action movies of the late 80s and early 90s.....I can't vouch for the dialog....The story, although I have seen it before, was decent.....In the midst of the carnage and ridiculous number of bullets and explosions, there were moments of genuinely good acting..... ... Full Review

Violent movies that are fun to watch... I'm talking about GOOD movies that just happen to be violent. Here is a top ten of the GOOD movies that are violent. ... Full Article

By Jeffrey M. Anderson Buy The Killer on DVD (Import: PAL, Region 2) Following up his monster hit A Better Tomorrow (1986) and its sequel , director John Woo scaled back on plot and pumped up his extraordinary operatic visuals... ... Full Article

Paramount has picked up the movie rights to The Killer's Game from Intermedia. The story centers on an assassin who decides to go out in a blaze of glory and takes out a contract on himself but then decides he'd... ... Full Article

From the Chicago Reader A lot of claims have been made for this campy bloodbath concerto (1989) by Hong Kong director John Woo, and I must admit that he's even better than Brian De Palma at delivering emotional and visceral... ... Full Article