I am just going to have to accept that John Woo is not my guy. So that makes two directors on my shit list this week. The Killer apparently made John Woo a star internationally, but I was bored. I stopped reading my magazine during the zany shoot-em-up scenes (I believe 150,000 people are movie-killed in the The Killer), but was bored the rest of the time. The dialog sucks, the plot is ridiculous, the villain is stupid. But those are not the things you watch this movie for, to be fair. Chow Yun-Fat looks awesome in his white suits and in his black suits! He looks kinda cute in a fake mustache. He's just hot.
The action scenes are pure Hong Kong, and that's a lot of fun. I am not a fan of white doves and candles though, so I gagged a bit every time Woo had an operatic white doves in a church scene. There were at least two.
Also, this movie is totally gay. I think there is supposed to be a thing going on with CYF and this singer, but the tension only exists between CYF and the cop trying to catch him. When the cop was telling Chow that he had to arrest him, had to stop him, I found myself adding dialog: But I really want to KISS you instead - in a mystery science theater voice. It was pretty funny. I think they were in love. Just once it would be cool if the homoerotic tension were actually followed through - I would be so surprised! Until then, there is just violence and white suits.
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