The
Replacement Killer
Chow Yun-Fat
has been a famous actor in Hong Kong action films 
such
as Once A Thief (where he did some comedy), A Better Tomorrow, and The
Killer (almost exactly like this film). Mostly starred in John Woo films,
and has now been taking his two pistol firing technique to America. This
film, directed by Music Video director Antoine Fuqa, isn't exactly John
Woo, but it's the 
closest
thing. The lowdown is Chow playing a killer called John Lee. (But, this
name sounds familar, where have I heard it? Maybe The Killer?) He is doing
his last job for Terence Wei. Killing a 8 year old kid. When trying to
do it (like a scene out of Face/OFF), he fails. He knows now that he will
be hunted down and slaughtered by Wei's group. The reason Wei wants the
boy killed is that his son was killed by the father of this kid. John then
goes to get forged documents from Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino), but 
gets
into a shoot out, and her stuff gets demolished. Antoine Fuqa's style isn't
this for sure. He was trying to do John Woo, but sorta failed. Not miserably.
It wasn't bad. But John Woo's beauty of the art of gun play was missing.
(The way they'd move and tons interaction in ONE CAMERA SHOT) But this
is like I said, the closest to a REAL John Woo film. Real John Woo films
include, The Killer, Face/OFF, Hard Target, Hard Boiled (not related to
Hard Target), Just Heroes, Broken Arrow, and the upcoming King's Ransom.
(With Chow) This time John Woo executive produced. But, if you aren't impressed
at the gun play in Hard Rain, check this out.
