{"id":18515,"date":"2026-03-30T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T01:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=18515"},"modified":"2026-03-30T20:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T00:35:10","slug":"spl-kill-zone-2005-wilson-yip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/18515","title":{"rendered":"SPL: Kill Zone (2005, Wilson Yip)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the movie wants us to root for the cops who are trying to out-brutality each other, versus drug boss Sammo Hung who had the parents of a &#8220;cute&#8221; child murdered before they could testify against him.  I chose to wish righteous death upon everyone onscreen, and nearly got my wish.  Each cop has his little emotional family subplot before getting killed by a white-suited knife guy, except for retiring-due-to-brain-cancer Simon Yam who unfairly gets to live to see the sequel.  Sammo also survives, but has been through a lot (accidentally murdering his family using Donnie Yen as a weapon), so he&#8217;s allowed to skip the sequel.  The lighting was good, anyway.  <\/p>\n<p><em>Look what happens to bad cops:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/killzone1.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>My coworkers are always asking the autocomplete apps for professional advice and they no longer trust any knowledge that doesn&#8217;t come from bots, so I finally gave in, asking a bot how this movie ends, and it gave a completely wrong answer.  Brandon&#8217;s Deeper Into Movies Blog: providing more accurate movie descriptions than the autocomplete bots for almost twenty years.<\/p>\n<p><em>You have defeated Donnie Yen, but at what cost?<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image26\/killzone2.jpeg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the movie wants us to root for the cops who are trying to out-brutality each other, versus drug boss Sammo Hung who had the parents of a &#8220;cute&#8221; child murdered before they could testify against him. I chose to wish righteous death upon everyone onscreen, and nearly got my wish. Each cop has [&hellip;]<\/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":[369,3140,499,2940,2915,3476],"class_list":["post-18515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2000s","tag-donnie-yen","tag-police-brutality","tag-sammo-hung","tag-simon-yam","tag-wilson-yip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515","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=18515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18548,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18515\/revisions\/18548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}