A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.A disillusioned assassin accepts one last hit in hopes of using his earnings to restore vision to a singer he accidentally blinded.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 6 nominations
Chow Yun-Fat
- Ah Jong
- (as Chow Yun Fat)
Kenneth Tsang
- Sgt. Tsang Yeh
- (as Tsang Kong)
Fui-On Shing
- Wong Hoi
- (as Shing Fui On)
Ricky Wong Chun-Tong
- Paul Yau
- (as Fan Wei Yee)
Chuen Chiang
- Shooter at beach
- (uncredited)
Chin-Hung Fan
- Shooter at beach
- (uncredited)
Woon-Ling Hau
- Trash lady
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaJohn Woo dedicated this film to Martin Scorsese.
- GoofsThe road sign board pointing to the hospital says "SCARED HEART HOSPITAL".
- Alternate versionsThe Taiwan version has a scene where it shows Jenny sitting in her dressing room while hearing the gunshots around 5 minutes into the movie.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Century of Cinema: Naamsaang-neuiseung (1998)
Featured review
This is like no other action film!
Of all John Woo's bullet-ridden action movies, this is his greatest. You see many of Mr. Woo's "trademarks" (flying doves, reflections in mirrors, very strong Catholic symbolism) that appear in his inferior American directed films (save Face Off) first in this Hong Kong cinema classic. Sure the violence is over the top, the plot only adequate, the sentimentalism a little thick. The actions scenes are filmed with such, I dare say beauty, that no Hollywood 'by the numbers' action film can possibly compete. While this film is not for the squeamish or those offended by excessive and rather graphic violence, if you are in any way a fan of action films - you mush see this movie (and many other John Woo directed films during his Hong Kong days, i.e. Hardboiled, A Better Tomorrow, etc).
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- jaltman143
- Mar 19, 2001
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Box office
- Gross worldwide
- $2,340,425
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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