Plot: A ruthless killer for hire doesn't quite finish the job when she fails to kill a singer in a private bar. Her employers aren't happy and order her to go back and kill the woman. She declines as she suspects there's more than meets the eye. She teams up with a local policeman to uncover the truth.
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January 07, 2025
Sometimes it's better to end a career on a high. I'm not sure why Woo bothered to remake one of his most popular films for a streaming service, but the result is pretty much what you'd suspect. Some winks to his glorious past, but the film can't hold its own to modern action cinema.
Yes, there's a church and some doves. There's also a scene that tips its hat to Jackie Chan's action films of yonder and the naming of the lead character (Z) probably wasn't coincidental either. But that doesn't make for good cinema. The performances are okay and the action scenes are decent, but this is hardly the riveting, dynamic action cinema Woo is known for. Oeuvre filler, nothing more.