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Contract Killer (1998)

Directed by Stephen Tung Wai

Action | Comedy | Crime

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

Financially troubled, a newbie hitman reluctantly takes the job of finding the plotted killer of a Japanese tycoon.

Rated R | Length 103 minutes

Actors

Jet Li | Gigi Leung | Eric Tsang | Simon Yam | Timmy Ho | Keiji Sato | Kenji Sahara | Kim Yip | Lui Tat | Law Shu-Kei | Chi Hung Ng | John Ching Tung | Hideri Meiken | Jude Poyer | Paul Rapovski | Ta Lei | Leung Shing-Hung | Sam Kai-Sen Huang | Dion Lam | Tat Chiu Lee | Simon Cheung Yuk-San | Mitsuru Tokashiki | Nunzio Caponio | Fukui Akihiro | Mika Kawanabe | Minori Ikarashi | Masako Enokimaru | Kalo Hiroshi | Jack Wong Wai-Leung | Wong Chi-Wai | Jim James

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Date ViewedDeviceFormatSourceRating
04/14/2020Home TheaterStreamingVideo on Demand5 stars
 

Viewing Notes

An odd crossover film, Chinese made but dubbed with rap music, presumably for an American audience, and released as Li was just moving over to Hollywood films like LETHAL WEAPON 4. Eric Tsang, Simon Yam and Gigi Leung round out the cast. Not Li’s best by far but there’s still plenty of fun action and goofiness going on to keep it entertaining. The redubbing is terrible though.

I have this on DVD as well but it’s also dubbed. I should probably try to find the original, longer film under the title HITMAN.

I did enjoy the quick homage to LEON!

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