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Contracts
Canada 2019
produced by Alex Chung for Nameless Killer Productions, Foolhouse Films
directed by Alex Chung
starring Alex Chung, Kyle Stewart, Michael Carter, Jermaine Carty, Dan Sanderson, Jonathan Pang, Christena Gaunce, Neil Bishop, Margaryta Soldatova, Giulio Calisse, Rufio Luey, Paul Krysinski, Shahab Pierre, Wolfgang Max Kaufmann, Reuben John Tumanguil, Tim Biemann, Graham Jezioranski
written and fight choreography by Alex Chung, music by Joseph Reitz, special effects by Paul Krysinski, Roy Lee, Alex Chung
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Someone's killing the employees of Sullivan's (Jermaine Carty)
organisation of top assassins for hire, so much so that for the next hit
on Senator Morris (Dan Sanderson), Sullivan has to hire outside help,
Anthony (Alex Chung), to pretty much be bodyguard of his assassin Headshot
(Michael Carter), to hopefully capture and/or kill who takes out
Sullivan's people. And Anthony has a private motive, too, as the
assassins' assassin's last victim was his girlfriend (Margaryta
Soldatova). However, when Anthony and Headshot hit the scene, the
assassins' assassin doesn't show up, but instead they're expected by a
small army of bodyguards who keep them occupied long enough for the
senator to make it to safety. Here's where the tables are turned though,
as after this episode Sullivan pretty much sacrifices his client
(Christena Gaunce) for the hit on the senator to make a deal with the
senator's accomplice Constantine (Neil Bishop), leader of his own team of
assassins, as he figures them joining forces would give him more power -
and not anticipating that this might only be a plot of Constantine's to
easily take out Sullivan's operation. Things get even more complicated
though when it's found out the assassins' assassin is one of Sullivan's
inner circle ...
Now it's rather obvious that this movie took its core
inspiration from the Hong Kong heroic bloodshed movies of the 1980s and
90s, a genre that time and again returned to the contract killer as a
protagonist in a game of shifting loyalities that are played out in
extended martial arts fights and shoot outs. But that's not to say that Contracts
merely apes the genre, as what actually makes this one stand out is that
it adds melancholic as well as existentialist traits to the formula, makes
all the well-staged action a vehicle for the more emotional aspects of the
story, thus giving it more depth - which is of course mirrored in a for
the genre unusually atmospheric directorial effort. But that said, this
doesn't take away from the action as such, as this is one fast-paced and
explosive thriller whichever way you want to look at it.
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