2001 · action · crime · thriller
Fulltime Killer
Directed by Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai1h 42m2001
Professional assassin O has resided in an isolated world of killing and loneliness. But his life begins to change once he meets the innocent 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.
Our read: Fulltime Killer (2001) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- intense
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