
For many years professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness, which only becomes worse after the death of his love, Nancy. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin. Chin, hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's life with a mission--to unveil O's identity and usurp his place as the number one sharp-shooting assassin in the game.... (Full plot summary below)
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For many years professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness, which only becomes worse after the death of his love, Nancy. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent Chin. Chin, hired to clean O's apartment. However, soon the flamboyent and reckless Tok enters Chin's life with a mission--to unveil O's identity and usurp his place as the number one sharp-shooting assassin in the game.
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| Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean AxmakerThe dreamy flow back and forth through time and memory and the shifting point of view across four narrators casts the sleek stylistics of 21st-century Hong Kong cinema between tortured existential heroics and tall tale. |
| FilmJerk.comEdward HavensFans of the modern day Hong Kong action film finally have the worthy successor to A Better Tomorrow and The Killer which they have been patiently waiting for. |
| UK CriticIan Waldron-MantganiThe movie should be building to a stunning conclusion, but somehow it loses momentum. |
| New York PostV.A. MusettoOne of Miike's most violent and sadistic movies, filled with squirting blood, throat-slashing, limb-hacking and other forms of mutilation too gruesome to describe here. |
| L.A. WeeklyHenry SheehanFor those who like their Hong Kong movies to come at them straight from the shoulder ... Fulltime Killer fulfills all the conventions of raw Cantonese gun opera. |
| Dallas Morning NewsGary DowellManages to be original, even though it rips off many of its ideas. |
| Film Journal InternationalDaniel EaganOften overwrought and at times positively irritating, the film turns into an engrossing thriller almost in spite of itself. |
| Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThere's a fine chemistry of contrasts between Lau's exuberance and the quiet, slow-burning intensity Takashi Sorimachi brings to his role. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrSo what is the point? Lovingly choreographed bloodshed taking place in a pristine movie neverland, basically. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairThere's no context for all the violence, which makes this the action equivalent of a porn flick. |