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Line 1: {{work\|wppage=The Killer (1989 film)}} [[File:The-Killer-1989-Poster.jpg\|frame]] {{quote\|''[[Hitman with a Heart\|One vicious hitman]]. [[Cowboy Cop\|One relentless cop]]. [[More Dakka\|Ten thousand bullets]].''}} '''''The Killer''''' (喋血双雄) is considered one of [[John Woo]]'s all time greatest films, drawing from such influences as Jean-Pierre Melville's hitman drama ''[[Le ~~Samourai~~Samouraï]]'' and Chang Cheh's bloody masterpiece ''Vengeance''. Chow Yun-Fat plays [[Hitman with a Heart]] Ah Jong, whose life changes forever when, in the middle of carrying out a hit at a restaurant, he accidentally blinds a beautiful lounge singer by the name of Jenny, played by Sally Yeh, with the muzzle flash of his gun. Several days later, Jong rescues Jenny from muggers who are out to rob her and gets to know the girl a bit better and is all the more wracked with remorse for it. Jong wants to leave the business behind so that he can be with her, but in order to raise the money to have Jenny's eyes fixed, he will need to perform one last job for his triad, which is to kill a guy by the name of Wong Dung-Yu. Unfortunately for Jong, things do not turn out as planned. The boss of the triad, Wong Hoi, who is the nephew of the guy he sent Jong out to kill, would rather kill Jong than hand over the money that Jong's handler Fung Sei promised to him, as he wants to clear the table for his ruthless ambitions. Meanwhile, a cop by the name of Inspector Li Ying (played by Danny Lee, who is good at playing [[Cowboy Cop\|Cowboy Cops]] in general) has picked up Ah Jong's case, and as he gets to know both the assassin and the woman that he's going through hell for, the two heroes on opposite sides of the law develop a respect for each other that soon turns into a bond of friendship akin to [[Blood Brothers\|blood brotherhood]]. As Fung Sei goes through hell to try to get the money for his friend, Wong Hoi has hired a replacement killer by the name of Paul Yau and a virtual army of assassins to get rid of Jong, and as everything goes straight to hell, Li becomes Jong's only ally against his double-crossing boss in a blazing final showdown that has come to define [[Heroic Bloodshed]]. Line 61: [[Category:Films of the 1980s]] [[Category:The Killer]] [[Category:Hong Kong Films]] [[Category:Heroic Bloodshed]] [[Category:Pages with working Wikipedia tabs]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Killer, The}} [[Category:Film]]