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.
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... 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 of his "crusty cop" persona). The good news is that Lee's free after one hit; the bad news is that Wei wants revenge on a cop who killed his son--by killing the cop's son. Lee decides to run rather than kill the boy, and Wei doesn't take kindly to the betrayal. Tough-talking passport forger Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino) creates a new identity for Lee, but that's of little help when they must face Wei's army of "replacement killers." First-timer Fuqua provides eye-candy visuals and plenty of action set pieces. John Woo executive produced. [More]
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Jürgen Prochnow
Starring: Chow Yun-Fat, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Jürgen Prochnow, Til Schweiger, Carlos Gomez, Danny Trejo, Kenneth Tsang, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Randall Duk Kim, Frank Medrano, Patrick Kilpatrick, Steven Garcia
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Composer: Harry Gregson-Williams
Producer: Brad Grey, Bernie Brillstein
Screenwriter: Ken Sanzel
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Sep 16, 2008
Reviews for The Replacement Killers
The Replacement Killers is not a very good film, but it is impossible to deny that it has a certain beauty.
Will serve as a suitable replacement when [Chow Yun Fat's] better films are already rented out for the weekend.
The most dispiriting thing about The Replacement Killers is that it proves Chow [Yun-Fat]'s charisma repressible.
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