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Fulltime Killer

Hong Kong 2001
produced by
Andy Lau, Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai for Milkyway Image, Teamwork Productions
directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-Fai
starring Andy Lau, Takashi Sorimachi, Kelly Lin, Simon Yam, Cherrie Ying, Lam Suet, Teddy Lin
screenplay by Wai Ka-Fai, Joey O'Bryan, based on the novel by Pang Ho-Cheung, music by Alex Khashkin, Guy Zerafa

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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O (Takashi Sorimachi) a very quiet & reclusive Japanese, is Asia's professional killer number one, but that is a position that Tok (Andy Lau), an extrovert, eccentric & movie-obsessed mainland Chinese, desperately tries to attain, even if it means duelling O for it. Caught in between them is Chin (Kelly Lin), a video-store clerk who has a part time job as cleaning woman at O's fake appartment - in fact O lives across the street & can spy on anything in this appartment through a camera lense -, but who is getting romantically involved with Tok, who tries to get to O through her. On their trail are Interpol agent Lee (Simon Yam9 & his assistant Gigi (Cherrie Ying), who, despite obtaining more & more information about Tok & O, always stay one step behind the 2.

After numerous shoot-outs, with both Tok & O being betrayed by their respective clients, but both coming out on top, the police actually manages to find O's real appartment & to corner him & Chin, with no way out for them ... or so it seems, as - unexpectedly - Tok turns up on a rooftop & helps O & Chin significantly in shooting their way out, badly wounding or killing everyone from the police but agent Lee.

That same night, at Lee's office, Tok turns up, delivering a box full of evidence against both hinmself and O, but before Lee can capture him, he steals the piece of evidence already in possession of the police he came for & vanishes into thin air.

Understandably shaken by both this experience & the death of his assistant Gigi in above-mentioned shoot-out, Lee quits Interpol & - on Tok's advice - starts writing a book about the case, a book that - to his great disappointment - has no ending ...

But then Chin comes along, who tells him the rest of the story, about how she went on the run with O, about when they met up with tok again & turned a woman between 2 men, about how Tok - in an almost friendly atmosphere, challenged O to a duel, about how he set up a fireworks storage building so that they both would have equal chances, & about how he finally shot O, with in the end both of them getting what they want in a way - Tok now being killer number one & O obscuring his identity forever that way ...

Or so she says, but couldn't it have been the other way, that Tok suffered a collaps caused by the bright & blinking lights of the fireworks accidently going off & being shot by O ?

 

Put into simple words, Fulltime Killer seems a rather silly, simple minded & overly convoluted movie, put onto celluloid though it becomes a clever & ironic (but not parodistic or comedic) statement on the killer-genre as a whole - as would be exüpedcted from director Johnny To -, showing a vastly ritualized world that has an inner logic which is totally out of touch with reality (reality as we would presume it that is), which is of course just as well, since the relation of a high-ocaane-action movie & realism has always been somewhat weird in the first place. That most of the beatuifully choreographed action-scenes constantly border the sarcastic only helps in proving that point.

If this makes the movie sound like a brainheavy but boring exercise in genre-deconstruction though, Fulltime Killer isn't, it actually manages to stay entertaining from beginning to end, providing first-class action & excitement throughout.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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