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The Killer (1989)
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"I really wanted to be impressed by this movie, and I was, in a sense. The color is fantastic, and the cinematography is nothing to sneeze at either. It even had what must have been some very cool gunfights for its time. Unfortunately the narrative itself was too hard to follow. Call me racist, but I had trouble differentiating the various bosses from each other due to the similarity of their names to my western ear. This left the majority of dialogue fairly difficult to comprehend. I wish I had seen this movie before being exposed to some of the better handgun-based action movies made since, such as A Better Tomorrow, A Better Tomorrow II, The Killer, Hard Boiled, Desperado, etc. Even The Wild Bunch could be included in that category. "
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"This blog entry is part of my “movie year countdown”. To read more about that check out my first Spout filmblog entry.Ying hung boon sik (A Better Tomorrow)I'm kind of fascinated by John Woo. I haven't even seen many of his movies, but I feel like I have a strong impressions. It seems like he was a master of action when he was working in the Hong Kong film industry. But then he started working in Hollywood, bringing all of his same techniques over in ways that just seem all the more silly and don't fit.Movies like Paycheck seem like he saw the story as just surroundings for his action sequences. When the action sequences had absolutely no relevance to the actual story which could have been interested if the director would have seemed to know what was going on or was invested.And then there is the fact that at the climax of nearly every single one of his movies there are shots of doves flying off. It's an interesting calling card, and the fact that ... "
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