Fulltime Killer (2002)
Runtime: 1 hr 43 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Starring: Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Simon Yam, Cherrie Ying, Kelly Lin
Screenwriter: Joey O'Bryan, Wai Ka Fai
Producer: Johnny To, Wai Ka Fai, Andy Lau
DVD Info
Release:
Jun 17, 2003
DVD Features:
- Region 1
- Keep Case
- Full Frame
Audio:
- Dolby Digital Stereo - Cantonese
Additional Release Material:
- Trailers
- Featurette - 1. Making Of
- Behind-the-Scenes Footage
Interactive Features:
- Interactive Menus
- Scene Selection
DVD-Rom Features:
- Weblinks
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Reviews
Full of visual and verbal references to action and noir favorites, but burdened by a knotty story line and existential dialogue about fateful coincidences, it has trouble locating its own emotional core.
The movie should be building to a stunning conclusion, but somehow it loses momentum.
There's very little sense to what's going on here, but the makers serve up the cliches with considerable dash.
So what is the point? Lovingly choreographed bloodshed taking place in a pristine movie neverland, basically.
The dreamy flow back and forth through time and memory and the shifting point of view across four narrators casts the sleek stylistics of 21st-century Hong Kong cinema between tortured existential heroics and tall tale.
Manages to be original, even though it rips off many of its ideas.
Fans of the modern day Hong Kong action film finally have the worthy successor to A Better Tomorrow and The Killer which they have been patiently waiting for.
Killer has killer style, but it ain't worth killing two hours of your life on it.
There's a fine chemistry of contrasts between Lau's exuberance and the quiet, slow-burning intensity Takashi Sorimachi brings to his role.
The movie’s something-borrowed construction feels less the product of loving, well integrated homage and more like a mere excuse for the wan, thinly sketched story. Killing time, that’s all that’s going on here.
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