Sure, the acting isn't much and the script won't be winning any awards for originality or dialogue...but Antoine Fuqua (with an executive producer assist from the great John Woo) have delivered a spectacular vehicle for Hong Kong star Chow Yun Fat.
From the opening scene in the nightclub to the final confrontation on the balconies of Chinatown, 'The Replacement Killer' is full of slick, spectacular, and almost beautiful (despite the graphic violence) sequences of gun play, featuring the stylised, slow-motion action that John Woo has become famous for. There are cool scenes in a theatre, arcade and even a carwash.
Yun Fat plays John Le, an assassin for a crime family who refuses to carry out a job - the killing of a police officer's young son - and has to fight for his life to get from America to China to save his own family from retribution.
Mira Sorvino plays his unlikely ally, Meg Coburn, a forgery specialist who is more than a match for Le. Michael Rooker is Zedkov, the cop whose son Le couldn't kill. Til Schweiger and Danny Trejo play the 'Replacement Killers', who are brought in to do the job Le wouldn't.
A brilliant action film.
From the opening scene in the nightclub to the final confrontation on the balconies of Chinatown, 'The Replacement Killer' is full of slick, spectacular, and almost beautiful (despite the graphic violence) sequences of gun play, featuring the stylised, slow-motion action that John Woo has become famous for. There are cool scenes in a theatre, arcade and even a carwash.
Yun Fat plays John Le, an assassin for a crime family who refuses to carry out a job - the killing of a police officer's young son - and has to fight for his life to get from America to China to save his own family from retribution.
Mira Sorvino plays his unlikely ally, Meg Coburn, a forgery specialist who is more than a match for Le. Michael Rooker is Zedkov, the cop whose son Le couldn't kill. Til Schweiger and Danny Trejo play the 'Replacement Killers', who are brought in to do the job Le wouldn't.
A brilliant action film.