{"id":14222,"date":"2021-05-19T20:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T00:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14222"},"modified":"2021-05-15T12:20:09","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T16:20:09","slug":"the-killer-1989-john-woo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14222","title":{"rendered":"The Killer (1989, John Woo)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just trying to chill with some Chinese action movies on Easter, I end up choosing a film where a Mary and Jesus statue explodes.<\/p>\n

Mouseover to blow up the statue:<\/em>
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Before the church job, Chow’s hit in a restaurant goes bad and he blinds a singer after killing 12 guys while using the infinite ammo cheat code on his dual pistols. Danny Lee is a disgraced supercop who also hurt a woman on a job, sent to protect a guy who Chow is sent to kill, but after witnessing the supposedly ruthless Chow save a girl from the line of fire, Danny falls in love with him and they end up fighting together.<\/p>\n

Danny Lee was in City on Fire with Chow, had portrayed Bruce Lee in the 70’s:<\/em>
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Thanks to Woo, I learned it’s hard to lipsync when the song plays at normal speed and everything else is in slow-motion. Also dig the trick of burning gunpowder to seal a wound, which I just saw in Monster Hunter<\/a><\/em>. It’s a just-pretty-good movie beloved by people who need to see invincible sunglasses-wearing heroes firing two guns whilst jumping through the air, Woo’s followup to the Better Tomorrow<\/em> movies<\/a>. Tsui Hark produced, while Woo produced Hark’s Better Tomorrow III<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sally Yeh starred in Hark’s Peking Opera Blues, a singer who retired from movies after this:<\/em>
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Just trying to chill with some Chinese action movies on Easter, I end up choosing a film where a Mary and Jesus statue explodes. Mouseover to blow up the statue: Before the church job, Chow’s hit in a restaurant goes bad and he blinds a singer after killing 12 guys while using the infinite ammo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[357,1898,395,632,804,274,2558],"class_list":["post-14222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1980s","tag-bird-tossing","tag-blindness","tag-chow-yun-fat","tag-hitman","tag-jesus","tag-john-woo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14244,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14222\/revisions\/14244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}