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: Universe Laser & Video Co.
: Action, Foreign, Hong Kong, Crime
: 90 min.
: Cantonese, Mandarin
: English
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Martial arts star Donnie Yen serves as producer, director and leading man of this stylish Hong Kong crime drama. Cat (played by Yen) is a killer for hire who is eager to leave the business, but agrees to one last hit to get even with a former friend who turned on him when they were both police officers, forcing Cat into a life of crime. Meanwhile, Cat discovers Carrie (Annie We), a female cop, has been put on his trail, and he kidnaps her -- only to find himself falling in love with her. Satsat Yan, Tiutiu Mo was Donnie Yen's second directorial assignment, following the period drama Legend of the Wolf. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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| Tired of Brooding Hitmen
by tboot
June 24, 2002 - 9:57 AM PDT
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5 out of 7 members found this review helpful
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| Ah, yes, the lonely hitman... We know him well. He broods in his expensive apartment with the great view, he longs for the touch of a woman who loves him, he wonders a little about the people he whacks ("no one is innocent" is his mantra), he wears sunglasses at night. In Ballistic Kiss, for maximum melancholy, the poor depressed guy even calls a late-night talk show DJ every night to muse forlornly about the beautiful woman who lives across the street. I'd have guessed that he was depressed to be trapped in a movie so awash in cliche that it verges on parody, except that the actor, Donnie Yen, is also the director. Yen, who directs in the Kevin Costner mode of lingering, adoring close-ups of himself, plays ex-cop Cat, our doleful killer-for-hire in love with the girl next door. The film is fatally humorless and pretentious (the only fun thing about it is the title), with Yen directing as if he's inventing the genre while simultaneously ripping off every crime movie made in the last decade, as if John Woo and Wong Kar-wai and a dozen others haven't already been there, as if he (or we) had never seen Chow Yun-fat's Flying Two-Gun Stance, a spurting, slow-mo bullet hit, neon-colored lighting or a glowering guy in a long black coat. |
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