The Killer ended up in front of me in the early nineties along with a bunch of other Hong Kong action flicks. At the time, I gobbled up just about anything that looked like it had action scenes in it, and the HK movies were a welcome addition. The Killer was the first of them I saw and from then on I was a die hard John Woo fan...

The killer is a hardcore action flick, but there is still time for love, grief, friendship, and tragedy. All wrapped in a beautifully shot movie, with music that only enhances every scene. Chow Yun-fat makes one of his greatest performances ever, and both Danny Lee and Kenneth Tsang do their part to make this one of THE greatest action movies of all time.

Woo almost make every gunfight look and sound like a symphony. The camera puts you right in the center of the action, and even though I think there are a few too many bullets in every clip, you don't seem to notice. Everything fits together seamlessly. Even the white suits, blouses, and shirts...which probably are there only to make the blood more "visible".

Highly recommended!!! Get it, See it, Love it...