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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 1 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | After he betrays Mr. Wei, the ruthless crime boss who hired him to avenge his son's death, professional killer John Lee goes on the run. Enlisting the aid of document forger Meg Coburn, Lee attempts to return to his family in China before they are victimi
Genre: Feature Film-Action/Adventure
Rating: R
Release Date: 5-MAR-2002
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| | Product Details | | Actors: | Yun-Fat Chow, Mira Sorvino, Michael Rooker, Kenneth Tsang, Jürgen Prochnow | | Director: | Antoine Fuqua | | Format: | Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, DVD, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC | | Language: | English, French | | Subtitle: | Spanish, French, Portuguese, Georgian, Chinese, Thai | | Number of Discs: | 1 | | Studio: | Sony Pictures | | Run Time: | 87 minutes | | DVD Release Date: | March 05, 2002 | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 115 reviews |
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perfect intro to Chow Yun-fat Jun 01, 2010
Although Europe and Asia knew him as a great action star the US hadn't really seen Chow Yun-fat at work. This is a great showcase for his skills as a actor although he doesn't say many lines.....it's what he doesn't say but does that will get your attention. I highly recommend this movie and I'm sure it will lead to you searching for more action from Chow Yun-fat.
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 A Better Action Flick Mar 13, 2010
A friend of mine fist told me about Chow Yun Fat a couple years before making this movie. I was talking about Jackie Chan and he told me about Chow and Jet Li and how they were coming to America to make a better class of action movie.
To see this, Chow's first American movie i was impressed to the bones, He looked cool he looked awesome. there wasn't an adjective you could use that didn't personify Chow Yun Fat
I was so hooked that i went out and found his Chinese work, and it was awesome too. I don't remember the name of the movie in it's original Chinese, but look for "A Better Tomorrow" if you are interested in seeing a good Chow Yun Fat movie from China
The director's cut of The Replacement Killers only adds in a little more background to the charactors that wasn't there (and really missed) in the theatrical release. If you haven't bought this movie yet, tis is the one to get. you won't be dissapointed.
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The Replacement Killers Blu Ray Nov 18, 2009
I saw The Replacement Killers when first released on Video and thought it was Great than again on DVD with a better picture & sound and now on Blu Ray with even clearer Picture and Sound bullets flying all over the place with a great performance by Chow Yun-Fat and especially Mira Sorvino looking so hot Recommended .
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 Stupid child-endargement plot Sep 12, 2009
I guess the viewer is expected to feel sympathy and relate to a situation where an assassin is so warmhearted that he decides not to go forward with his contract of killing a cop because he's playing basketball with his kid. I sometimes consider myself a bleeding heart liberal but this is just plain stupid. Had it been a case where he decides not to kill someone because they make good pancakes, I could have related.
Shallow. Target audience: prisoners who need to feel that there's someone worse than them. "I did this and that, but I'm not a child killer".
The Replacement John Woo Jun 12, 2009
- Chow Yun-Fat, in the DVD featurette: "I shot over 556 rounds with two guns. Next morning I cannot hold my chopstick. My hand's too shaky." Just goes to show that even masters of gun-fu can come down with horrifying finger cramps.
In 1998 THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS was supposed to usher in Chow Yun-Fat as the new action hero in the American box office, except that it didn't really work out that way. Chow Yun-Fat is big, big noise in Hong Kong cinema, and very well deserving of his superstar status there. He and director John Woo pretty much made their rep on elegant thrillers like A BETTER TOMORROW, HARD-BOILED, and THE KILLER. But the icon could've picked a better vehicle than THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS to make his Hollywood debut.
It's another story about a remorseless killer whose conscience finally catches up with him. Chow Yun-Fat plays cool professional hit man John Lee, forced to undertake contracts for Los Angeles-based (?) Asian crime boss, Mr. Wei. His first two kills for Mr. Wei were no big whoop, the victims being criminal scum, but then Lee balks at his third target, a police officer spending time with his seven year old child (this is the same cop who had shot up Wei's son). Lee understands that his botched assignment has just landed him in serious doodoo with his boss. Now fearing for his family's safety and urgently needing to get the eff out of the U.S. Lee scrambles to get his hands on a passport. Which is where sultry document forger Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino) comes in. Sucks for Meg that she promptly becomes, by association, an objective of Wei's vendetta. Lee and Meg go on the run. Cue the bullets. Cue the slo-mo violence.
THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS is the sort of cinema you pop in when you don't want to strain the brain too much. This movie is pretty mindless stuff, with flimsy dialogue, a skimpy plot, and unelectrifying chemistry between the two leads. I couldn't get into the plot device involving Lee's concern over his mother and sister's plight. Frankly, since all we ever really see of the mother and sister is an old faded photo, who gives a crippitycrap? I certainly wasn't emotionally engaged.
I guess I buy Mira Sorvino as the hardened forger, and it's because she's either good enough as an actress that she sells her role or because I'm a dude and this hottie for most of the film scampers around in a sexy black slip, boots and red, red lipstick, and waving a gun and an attitude. That's pretty damn hot. But again it's disappointing that she and Chow Yun-Fat doesn't click as well together. But I did laugh for a bit, seeing as how John Lee paid Meg a thousand dollars to forge a passport and all she ends up doing is gluing his photo on to one. Yes, Meg sure has got them mad forging skills.
By the way, the film title refers to two assassins later hired by Mr. Wei to finish Lee's job and to also take out Lee and his family. This is important only in that one of these "replacement killers" happens to be Danny Trejo, an hombre with a distinctive face who usually ends up playing supporting role bad guys (although he's the star of the upcoming MACHETE). It's always a nice surprise when I see him popping up in a film.
When you get right down to it, I like this movie. John Woo co-produced it - I wish he'd directed it - and there's some here of what he'd cut his teeth on. Antoine Fuqua, formerly a music video director, apes John Woo's sensibilities, but Fuqua is no Woo, and so there's a certain polish or follow-thru or something missing. Still, this is the legendary Chow Yun-Fat taking up a familiar role and he brings his smooth elegance to the action sequences. I feel okay with the world whenever the dapperly dressed Chow Yun-Fat is whirling around and getting trigger-happy with a gun in each hand. What's missing is the man's sense of humor, that sly personality. Chow Yun-Fat instead comes across as truculent and understated to the point of being monotone. I haven't seen THE CORRUPTOR, but we do see a lighter side of Chow in BULLETPROOF MONK. Still if you want to see how charismatic this dude is, I recommend his native films, especially HARD-BOILED and THE KILLER.
THE REPLACEMENT KILLERS, like most of its type, is basically a showcase for one flashy action sequence after another, with scenes of occasionally forced exposition serving as the linking mechanism. Character development, it simply falls on the wayside. Chow Yun-Fat does his stony-faced killing machine thing, and, as ever, he moves with fluid grace, rendered even more poetic in dramatic slow motion. Even though I consider this flick to be John Woo Lite, there are plenty of cool poses and stylized visuals here. But, still, imagine how much more impactful those images would be if the viewer were more invested in the characters. I say, 3.5 stars out of 5.
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