An unworthy vehicle for a great star like Chow Yun-fat.
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04/27/06
The Replacement Killers (1998)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:12
Rotten:18
Average Rating:5.5/10
Runtime: 1 hr 36 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Versatile Hong Kong box office giant Chow Yun-Fat makes a Hollywood splash as a John Lee, Chinese hitman beholden to drug kingpin Mr. Wei (Hong Kong stalwart Ken Tsang, in an interesting reversal... [More]
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Jürgen Prochnow
Director: Antoine Fuqua
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Reviews for The Replacement Killers
One cannot accuse Killers of possessing a kernel of intelligence, but it's still a stylish action film.
01/01/00
The most dispiriting thing about The Replacement Killers is that it proves Chow [Yun-Fat]'s charisma repressible.
03/08/02
The ever-charismatic Chow will certainly have no trouble winning new fans with his English language debut.
01/01/00
The Replacement Killers is not a very good film, but it is impossible to deny that it has a certain beauty.
01/29/05
Fuqua...obviously knows a good thing when he sees one and lets Chow dominate The Replacement Killers so thoroughly that the movie's liabilities...slide by relatively painlessly.
01/01/00
Will serve as a suitable replacement when [Chow Yun Fat's] better films are already rented out for the weekend.
03/19/03
A fair action thriller is offered here but what a difference this movie would make from merely being fair to that of being a fist-full-of-frenzied fun. A mild recommendation at best.
01/01/00
The John Woo school of the ballet of bullets gets a full dose of Sam Peckinpah under the steady hand of director Antoine Fuqua's finely framed tale of revenge.
05/19/09
Style over substance all the way, but at least it's not boring.
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