I loved this movie. The plot was paper thin with a basic character set-up but it functions perfectly fine within the context of this film. The draw here is not an intricate plot it is the almost unbelievably awesome action sequences. I think John Woo has used more bullets and guns than were used in the Warsaw Uprising or Stalingrad. Forget Die Hard or Commando or any of those other American action films: films like The Killer set the bar for what an action film can be.
If you are looking for gun battles, explosions, blood, Chinese people with unintentionally hilarious dubbing, and of course doves flying around a church then this is the film you want to watch. If you like action films you will love The Killer without question. It will probably provoke you to seek out other Hong Kong action films which is a good thing because The Killer is not the only one. City of Fire and A Better Tomorrow immediately come to mind as other great HK films.
If you are looking for gun battles, explosions, blood, Chinese people with unintentionally hilarious dubbing, and of course doves flying around a church then this is the film you want to watch. If you like action films you will love The Killer without question. It will probably provoke you to seek out other Hong Kong action films which is a good thing because The Killer is not the only one. City of Fire and A Better Tomorrow immediately come to mind as other great HK films.