I had to stop after 50min where I couldn't take it anymore, I mean it might be for someone but not for me.

John Woo has a style and I respect that! However I'm not sure if I would still have stomach for that in 2024, nearly 30 years after Faceoff.

You might ask how about the story then? Enough to know that a Killer with misplaced conscious caused a lot of civilians to die to avoid one particular civilian to die because she was against killing civilians. I know it's stupid. But that's the main theme, at least up until I said enough is enough. The plot has so many wholes and it looks so fake that even popular faces couldn't save it for me.

Do not waste your precious life with this movie, Mr Woo, please grow up.

Let me beging by saying I love John Woo, Omar Sy, and Nathalie emmanuel, but this movie doesn't go anywhere, do anything, or offer up anything in the way of real entertainment aside from the good action sequences that stitch the diolgue sections together. In fact were it not for these three actors the movie would be immeasurably worse. I'll try to be conciese here.

The plot is simply ridiculous. Who decided to make a movie on a story so preposterous? Just imagine how good this movie might have been if the person creating and detailing the plot had an imagination, a lick of common sense, or a brain to create a proper conept. I'll not go into detail but suffice to say the story isn't worthy of any of the talent enlisted in the movie, nor does it conjure up the slightest modicum of interest, intrigue or investment in emotion.

The actors do a good job with the meterial... such as it is, but nothing can rescue this plot from the underhand vice of creativity that is lacking. Sam worthington is a very capable actor; I like him, and in spite of his relegation to mostly lower profile movie categories in the past few years, his talent nevertheless persists. Here he's cast as an Irishman, and I'm not even sure if he's supposed to be Northern or Southern but not only is his accent is terrible, but the requirement to have him play an Irish national at all is mind boggling. It has no relevance to the preceedings and only makes sense if confusing the audience with what his actually saying is by design. In his first scene I wondered if he was speaking turkish, I kid you not! I could not understand a word he was saying.

Woo does a good job with the action sequences and to be fair, as an action flick and in dipicting excitement and intensity in general, especially the relevant places, it does well. The shots are great, the actors do well with the sequences, and movie comes alive considerably, but there isn't anything pinning this together except a stupid story that lulls atrociously outside these spaces where Woo's influence isn't primarily on display. "Between the panels" It's just rubbish.

Shame really as I had high hopes for this one. Yes they should have had a better plot, writers etc, but this is where we are and unfortunately as I've said, as an entertainment piece there is little on offer.

There are some good points though, Emmanuel is delectable in much of the attire she dons and indeed there are some nice shots in the movie which can be appreciated outside of the project as a whole, hence my 5/10

Still, that said, watching it is a not much more than a waste of time.

*The Killer* is a remake of John Woo's classic film, directed once again by Woo himself. The original was a hallmark of Hong Kong cinema, but this new version is set in France, with the male lead Sey (played by Omar Sy) switching between English and French.

The hitwoman Zee (Nathalie Emmanuel), during one of her jobs, ends up killing everyone in a bar except for a singer, Jenn (Diana Silvers), who is injured and becomes blind. Rather than eliminating the witness, Zee decides to let her live.

This decision has serious repercussions, causing Zee to question her career as a hired assassin. Her handler, Finn (Sam Worthington), isn't fond of leaving "loose ends," which leads to conflict with his boss, Gobert (Eric Cantona).

The film blends the signature stylized action of John Woo with elements from other action thrillers like *John Wick*, *Atomic Blonde* (with its female assassin), and *Jason Bourne*. Notably, the original male lead is swapped for a female protagonist in this version. The movie culminates in a shootout-heavy finale with a predictable conclusion that you can see coming from miles away.

While *The Killer* is entertaining and features several recognizable actors, its biggest flaw is the inevitable comparison to the original. Modernizing the setting is a nice touch, but it doesn't do enough to surpass the original film. There's something missing that keeps it from rising above mediocrity. It's the kind of movie you watch once but likely won't revisit.