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Hitman
Hong Kong 1998
directed by Tung Wei
starring Jet Li, Eric Tsang, Simon Yam, Gigi Leung, Keiji Sato, Paul Rapovski
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Jet Li is a hitman from mainland China too good to be true, more often than not intentionally
missing his intended victims out of pure sympathy. Eric Tsang is a
sleazy but loveable con-man who poses as his agent. Together they are
out to track down the Angel of Death, a vigilante assassin who killed
underworld-heavyweight old-man-Tsukamoto, but unfortunately nobody knows
who he might be & - since there are 100 million Dollars on his head
- almost every assassin of the underworld is hot on his heels, too. In the
end though, Li & Tsang end up siding with the angel - who turns out
to be police officer Simon Yam - mainly because old man Tsukamoto's
grandson (Keiji Sato) turns out to be a true bastard, & - after an
explosive showdown - good triumphs over evil.
Another take on the professional killer genre that is nowhere nearly
as popular as in Hong Kong, this time - mainly thanks to Tsang - with a
comic touch. But as it stars Jet Li, there's still action aplenty (I
especially liked the fight with the guy who shoots lightflashes from his
rings & shoes to temporary blind his adversary). That said, Hitman
is in no way an original movie, rather a routine Hong Kong action
comedy, as such, though, it
might still provide 100 minutes of rather mindless fun.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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