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"The doves fly as freely as the bullets in The Killer, arguably the finest of action maestro John Woo’s gun operas and an explicit homage to the tough-guy cinema that inspired him. Chow Yun-fat stars as Ah Jong, a hitman of near-superhuman gunslinging abilities who accidentally blinds singer Jennie (Sally Yeh) in a shootout at a nightclub. Vowing to pay for surgery to restore Jennie’s sight, Ah Jong takes a high-fee ‘one last job’ that inevitably spirals out into bloody mayhem on the streets of Hong Kong.

Woo having embarked upon the shooting of the picture with only a treatment to hand, The Killer has the energy of a film made on instinct, a kinetic jumble of its director’s influences (Scorsese, Melville, spaghetti westerns) with a resident’s eye for dynamic Hong Kong locations. Picking one standout setpiece is tough, but the climax, in which Ah Jong, making his final stand in a church, fights back a horde of enemies in a Peckinpah-esque symphony of violence, is hard to top." - British Film Institute

R18+ | Frequent graphic violence