Fancy suits, slow motion gunfights and pigeons soaring dramatically in the air: The Killer by John Woo (Face/Off) is nothing short of one Action film style icon. With its intensely dramatic shootouts and heartfelt male friendship, the 1989 classic shot into the minds of audiences and into the imaginations of cinematic imitators.
However, the emotional high point of Hong Kong’s Heroic Bloodshed cinema ended up on the index in Germany because of its brutal action interludes. This year, The Killer will be released uncut in Blu-ray format in Germany for the first time.
This is known about the Blu-ray release of The Killer
According to an exclusive report from Bluray-Disc.de, BbA Films has tried to have the film re-examined by the FSK, which will probably be approved for people aged 18 and over. At the December 8th will release The Killer label on Blu-ray. The film cannot be pre-ordered yet.
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This is the end of a waiting period for German fans of the action classic that has been going on since 2015. At that time, the film was removed from the index after 25 years (via cut reports), but a reasonable release with high image quality never materialized. If you wanted to see John Woo’s The Killer in full HD, you had to resort to imports.
Why The Killer is considered one of the best action movies of all time
John Woo perfects Heroic Bloodshed cinema in The Killer. These films usually tell stories tragic stories of cops and gangsters. Standing on opposite sides of the law, they still develop respect and affection for one another because they share more principles than their colleagues in the precinct or underground.
In The Killer, it’s Hong Kong’s superstars Chow Yun-fat and Danny Lee, who repeatedly face off in Mexican stand-offs and increasingly question whether the separation of police and crime is still relevant in their hyper-capitalist world.
Woo tells her story like a gory action-opera full of unforgettable gunfights that gained cult status thanks to their over-stylization. Filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were influenced by Woo’s heroic shootoutsjust like the slow-motion action in The Matrix and countless other films.
Today, The Killer is considered one of the best action movies of all time.