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| Director(s): | Antoine Fuqua | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: | 5.70 out of 10 (7663 votes) |
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| Runtime: | 84 minutes |
| Resolution: | 720x300 px |
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| Language: English | 48 kHz | Dolby AC3 | 384 kbps | 6 |
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Storyline
- Kill or be replaced.
- When people need to disappear, they come to see Meg. When they're about to go, they never see John coming.
- Conscience has no place in the heart of an assassin.
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Visitor Reviews
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Loved it posted on 24 May 2001
I have no idea how I first saw the movie, but I bought the video soon after. It has a great look. It's very sharp. It's in the tradition of the of unknown/unexpected heros coming along and taking care of the bad guys; so you don't need this big old character development. It has a great sort of mystical quality to it.
I've watched it many times and like it better each time I see it.
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Cho Yun Fat is fantastic. The music was good in between thebullets! Movie plot could have had more depth though. It was a lotof fun seeing assasin Johnny Trejo with his hair "couffed"obviously fresh from the salon ala Travolta style in (Pulp Fiction)!
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Typical of the Hong Kong movie genre, The Replacement Killers is an awesome display of big guns, fast bullets, and overall arsekickin' action. Chow Yun Fat is undoubtedly one of the best Asian action stars today and he displays his excellence in this movie. Mira Sorvino also does a good job as the female lead of the movie.The entire flick is testosterone-driven, accomplied by metal and techno music, it's blast.
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Tarance Wei son is killed by a detective, so he decides to hire John Lee to kill the detective's son. John can't do the job and figures his family will be in danger. He attempts to get to China and meets up with Meg. The two become partners in this action packed movie. The movie has a lot of style but there isn't real strong substance. The action scenes are quite good and there are funny scenes throughout the movie and the final action scene was done quite well. I give this movie 3/5. Rated PA
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This is a nice piece of action movies - no personal dramas or the like to bore you, just action. Correction - shooting.
This is the thing missing - fighting. Suspense, excellent photography, moody scenes are all there. But, between the bullets I'd like to have seen some fighting. At least on a movie with a martial arts actor.
Video and audio are five stars. Special rewards going for the use of the DD 5.1 capabilities. They explored its potential the whole movie, not only on flying bullets scenes. A sound experience.
Extras are just a trailer, a supposed making-of/documentary which, actually, is none of it. There's full and widescreen options.
I liked it a lot. But missed the fighting.
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Wow, this movie just blew me away !!! I am a fan of the John Woo type of action movies and I must say that even he was just one of the executive producers, his mark is all over this movie!!! The result is very good : Nicely paced action sequences (Chow Yun Fat with two guns, it's not action, it's belle), well acted , you kinda start feeling sympathetic for the leads and you'll certainly hate the villains. This is a thrill ride from beginning till the end. And this is where I have my only point of criticism : The movie is way to short !!! 80 minutes and the credits start to roll!!! You'll almost start to beg for more... A must-see for every action movie lover.
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THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS Aspect ratio: 2.39:1 (Super 35)Sound formats: Dolby Digital / SDDS-8John Woo (who else?) co-produced this debut US vehicle for Asian superstar Chow Yun-fat (or 'Mr. Fat', as he's known to some careless movie fans), in which Chow plays a hired killer pursued by ruthless gangster Kenneth Tsang Kong (BISHONEN) after refusing to assassinate the family of a cop (Michael Rooker) who killed Tsang's son during a drugs bust. Mira Sorvino plays the plucky con artist hired by Chow to provide him with forged documents so he can flee the country, only to find herself caught up in Tsang's lust for vengeance, as monstrous hit men Til Schweiger (DER BEWEGTE MANN) and Danny Trejo (BLOOD IN BLOOD OUT) arrive on the scene to exterminate both Chow and his immediate family. For all its flashy visuals and explosive soundtrack, Antoine Fuqua's derivative film ploughs a well-worn furrow, slavishly imitating the Hong Kong action-thrillers which first brought Chow to Hollywood's attention, whilst completely disregarding the emotional/thematic resonance that distinguishes Asian cinema from its western counterparts. Chow is OK, as usual, but the part doesn't require him to do very much, and the entire cast (including an underused Jürgen Prochnow) plays second fiddle to the slam-bang pyrotechnics. Routine stuff, with few redeeming features.
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Wild and absolutely menacing thriller involving Chow Yun-Fat (in his American film debut) as John Lee, a quiet yet resourceful hit-man who along with a sarcastic forger, Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino), become involved when Lee refuses to take out someone close to a cop (Michael Rooker), who shot and killed his mobster boss' drug-dealing son during a drug bust and in the process, Coburn and Lee are also targeted by his superiors.It's a brilliant debut for Yun-Fat and director Antoine Fuqua ("Bait", "Training Day"), both of whom show their skills with such respect. Some of the shoot-outs that take place in some areas that you wouldn't even think of (car wash, alley, movie theater, etc.). Plus, the cinematographer Peter Lyons Collister and composer Harry Gregson-Williams excell in making the movie even more entertaining. The scenery has a very colorful and artistic look to it and the music doesn't get too loud. I think of the movie as "Lethal Weapon" made like in the style of John Woo, who is one of the film's producers."The Replacement Killers" certainly hits the center of the bulls-eye with hair-raising accuracy.
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I have seen this movie about five times now (everytime it comes on HBO)+ I bought it. I can't put my finger on it - ok, the dialogue isn't the greatest, and yeah, some of the action is cheesy - maybe it's the chemistry of the two stars - I dunno - but I can't watch a lot of violence in movies and this one I could see over and over and - you get the picture!
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Just as anything related to John Wu is expected to be, this was a fun movie to just sit down and watch. The camera work made it a very interesting visual journey and the acting was easily good enough to carry a plot that did not try to overcomplicate itself or out-smart the audience. It was straight ahead, shoot-em up fun and was well done. Chow Yun-Fat made a wonderfully cool hero who was very easy to root for. He was larger than life without being larger then everyone else in the film, which is a refreshing change at times.
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OK, so it's hokey with no proper storyline and no character development or believable interaction between those on screen, but boy does it work! You can keep your over long pretentious tales of what real gentlemen the mafia, the triads or whatever are. I'm not interested that whilst they're busting my old lady they're being good to theirs. Goodies versus baddies or even baddies versus baddies means action and if we are to have action let's have it like this, fast furious, non-stop and stylish. It doesn't have to look as good as here but it helps. This film is a wondrous ride and do we pause for a romantic interlude? Do the fantastic pair, Chow Yun-Fat and Mira Sorvino even touch each other? I don't think there was time for that, time only to pick up two or two dozen guns and fire them all at once, all the time. Wow this is silly comic book stuff, but real fun.
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A highly stylish film, filled with action and emotionally charged scenes matched perfectly with background music. An Academy Award winner, it is not, but a romp of a 90-minute visceral ride, it definitely is. Chow Yan Fat's screen presence is magnetic, and Mira Sorvino superbly carries the supporting role with star quality. Emotionally charged, stylishly filmed, and action-packed; definitely a collector's DVD for the artistically inclined.
Not much of DVD extras to speak of, but at a discounted price you get both the anamorphic widescreen and 4:3 formatted versions, which is a terrific value. More DVDs should be released and priced this way.
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An excellent movie starring the East's best known actor, Chow Yun-Fat (The Killer, City On Fire, A Better Tomorrow, and many more) and the West's sexiest actress, Mira Sorvino (Mimic, erm...). The film is worth buying for the soundtrack (I hear the soundtrack CD itself is rubbish, though).And look out for that Chinese guy who appears in all Hollywood action movies including Die Hard, etc. and has also been in a few A-Team episodes, I think!
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The Replacement Killers oozes the a style that only few movies in recent times (Out of Sight, Face/Off) have been able to do. Although plot and characterisation are limited, the brilliantly choreographed action scenes are almost reminiscent of John Woo's old movies (The Killer, A Better Tomorrow).John Woo once said that he tries to make action scenes like the ballet, and he has emulated dance choreography brilliantly in the Repalacement Killers.The chemistry between Meg (Mira Sorvino) and John (Chow Yun Fat) also added to the overall sense of the film. Whilst not the most thought provoking film ever created, The Replacement Killers is a great showing of how style is created.
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Chow Yun-Fat's Hollywood debut is less then impressive. This film is a Hollywood version of the Heroic Bloodshed films without the drama and style.
Replacement Killers(1998) looks more like a vehical for Sylvester Stallone then Chow Yun-Fat. The actors do their best espically Chow Yun Fat & Mira Sorvino in trying to make things interesting. The shootouts in the Replacement Killers(1998) lack flamboyance and visceral action. Chow Yun-Fat is a great actor whose talents are wasted in this mediocre affair. -
The first time i heard about the movie and reed about it i was a bit confused if i was gonna like it or hate it. I saw the movie and i enjoyed it because it had the kind of action i enjoy. Chow Yun Fat stars as John Lee and Yun Fat is one of my favorite actors he's awesome and cool. The film is about John which is an assassin and is preparing his final murder which e can't do, so he's on the run back to his family in china. One of my personal favorite clips in the movie is the opening scene when John makes his move in the disco. A cool, Violent, bloody Action film with Chow Yun fat, this i one of my personal favorite films.
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Absolutely Chow Yun-Fat is an impressive presence, but more impressive are some of the action sequences.
If you like action films and the HK action genre, this is an interesting blend. Versus HK films, these action sequences are less physical, but enhanced with more interesting hardware. In one sequence, while chasing Chow Yun-Fat one of the replacement killers is carrying a briefcase. I'm thinking "What's in the briefcase?" The killer spots Yun-Fat and doesn't open the briefcase to produce a weapon, but starts shooting at him with the briefcase itself. A submachine gun is inside and the briefcase's handle has a trigger. Eventually the killer decides that the briefcase isn't accurate enough; flips it open and takes out and reloads the H&K MP5K that's inside, and continues on. Cool. (Shockingly, this briefcase is a factory option from H&K.)
Not quite The Killer meets Heat, but close enough.