Fulltime Killer (2001)
Directed by Wai Ka-Fai
Professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin; hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's life with a mission to unveil O's identity and usurp his place as the number one sharp-shooting assassin in the game.
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"Fulltime Killer" references everything from " Point Break " and " Terminator 2 " to "Rear Window" and, in a surprisingly subtle gag, Alain Delon in "Le Samourai".
The first is a subtle planner named "O" (Takashi Sorimachi) and the second is a flashy showoff (Andy Lau) who's obsessed with old movies (he references El Mariachi and Le Samourai, among others).
One scene sums up its violent grandiloquence nicely: a shootout in a fireworks factory between the world's number-one hit man, O, a young slicked-back, cooler-than-a-Popsicle Japanese hipster played by model-singer-actor Takashi Sorimachi, and its number-two killer, Tok, a Chinese assassin played â with nervous giggles that echo back to Richard Widmark's old-lady killer in Kiss of Death â by Hong Kong icon Andy Lau.
"Fulltime Killer" references everything from " Point Break " and " Terminator 2 " to "Rear Window" and, in a surprisingly subtle gag, Alain Delon in "Le Samourai".
From the balletic fusillades of gunfire to the hokey nods to Rear Window and A Clockwork Orange, Fulltime Killer may not be subtle, but it is stunning and preposterous.
It's ''Point Break,'' it's ''Heat,'' it's ''A Clockwork Orange,'' it's a dozen of De Palma's lyrical gunfests.
"Fulltime Killer" references everything from " Point Break " and " Terminator 2 " to "Rear Window" and, in a surprisingly subtle gag, Alain Delon in "Le Samourai".
This is clearly a Point Break reference (something another character points out, as if it wasn't obvious enough), but doesn't really seem to serve any purpose other than making the viewer wish they were watching that film instead.
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John Woo made the same film with The Killer in 1989, which was admittedly based on Sam Peckinpah�s The Killer Elite (1975).
It's ''Point Break,'' it's ''Heat,'' it's ''A Clockwork Orange,'' it's a dozen of De Palma's lyrical gunfests.
From the balletic fusillades of gunfire to the hokey nods to Rear Window and A Clockwork Orange, Fulltime Killer may not be subtle, but it is stunning and preposterous.
John Woo made the same film with The Killer in 1989, which was admittedly based on Sam Peckinpah�s The Killer Elite (1975).
There's also a police station shootout "inspired" by The Terminator.