The Replacement Killers

Year:	1998
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Genre:	Action, Crime, Thriller
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	7.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	4 Have Seen


Director	Antoine Fuqua
Selected Cast	Yun-Fat Chow as John Lee
	Mira Sorvino as Meg Coburn
	Michael Rooker as Stan 'Zeedo' Zedkov

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DVD

The Replacement Killers - Columbia TriStar - Australia (1999)

VHS

Replacement Killers - Egmont Film - Sweden

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Magic Marmalade 20th Jan 2025		Rated 7/10 Wow, this is a short movie! 1hr, 24mins. And after the opening scene, which seems to just drop you straight into the action from the off, it threatens to slow down to a crawl, and I wondered how it was going to pack a whole movie into the time remaining... but in the end, it does pretty good job. It's one of those that is generally not well regarded, and I think it's because of this absence of character establishment / exposition form the off, which is a little bemusing, and made me wonder for a few more minutes than I'd liked: What the hell is going on! ...But that's because it's also one of those that just drops little bits of key info and back-story as it goes, rather than swamp you with story from the outset. Basic plot: Cop kills cirme boss' son, so crime boss wants hired killer to kill cop's son... he can't so now hired killer needs to get the FO.O.D in order to escape crime boss coming after him, which he attempts to do with the help of passport forger, who then gets embroiled in the whole thing. This has more than a whiff of Leon about it, especially in the score, and reminded me a lot of the later Kiss Of The Dragon (which I like a lot)... And while this has has some truly stunning photography / cinematography, which is beautifully lit, and shot, I can see where the criticism of it over the years as being more style than substance. But given how enjoyable it is, and how short, I think this can be forgiven. A couple of other facts which may serve to both explain it, and perhaps recommend it: Produced by (among others): John Woo. Mira Sorvino does a pretty damn impressive job as not only turning out to be pretty bad ass, but fairly hard ass when she wants to be, and on the strength of this, makes me wonder why she didn't do more of this kind of thing in her career - she seems to have an untapped talent for it! It has Michael Rooker. ...........It has Danny Trejo. Legends both. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



jaimeeduardo 4th Apr 2021

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