Hitman

1998 [CANTONESE]

Action / Comedy / Crime / Thriller

22
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 39%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 39% · 50 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.1/10 10 5838 5.8K

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Plot summary

Financially troubled, a newbie hitman reluctantly takes the job of finding the plotted killer of a Japanese tycoon.

Director

Wei Tung Photo
Wei Tung

Top cast

Jet Li Photo
Jet Li as Fu
Jude Poyer Photo
Jude Poyer as Assassin
Eric Tsang Photo
Eric Tsang as Ngok Lo
Richard Epcar Photo
Richard Epcar as Officer Chan Kwan
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
957.59 MB
1280*672
Cantonese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 2
1.92 GB
1920*1008
Cantonese 5.1
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
1 hr 44 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Pierre_Kirby 5 / 10

See Jet kick and jump in his prime.

The Contract Killer is one of Jet Li's best films. Besides the cool action sequences, the movie has effective humor (courtesy of Eric Tsang), and well... more action sequences. Not to mention the movie has one of the most rubbish scripts ever in the history of Kung-Fu/Action cinema. The script is so bad, the sub-villain is a guy with lasers on the tip of his shoes. And the villain eats his diseased grandfather's ashes. Yeah.Anyways, long story short, Jet and Eric must find the killer of old mafioso don Tsukamoto, in order to receive a 100 million dollar reward. Everything else is action and buddy comedy.It is important to recognize the talent and agility Jet demonstrates in his fighting scenes. Although they are far from being his best, the work he puts in here is astounding; heavily inspired by most of Jackie Chan's work as a matter of fact. Jet isn't a killing machine here, or a spiritual white robbed man with a bad haircut. He is but a skillful martial artist that doesn't want to hurt anyone badly, therefore, he resorts to use his surroundings most of the time. Like Jackie in most of his films.It is also important to recognize Eric Tsang. The man is very good in this one; funny, enjoyable and overacted (but in a tasteless way of course). I also liked the musical score and requisite Hip Hop soundtrack. Statement: You are not a Jet Li purist if you haven't seen Contract Killer. I also highly recommended this to anyone that wants to laugh and see some large amounts of ass kicking at the same time.5.3/10
Reviewed by The-Sarkologist 7 / 10

What one can expect from a Hong Kong action flick

It seems that there is little to differentiate this movie from the 1991 Aaron Norris version, but when I come to think of it, the real name is probably something like "King of Killers" or "Punishment Angel" or something like that. The thing is that the movie was released on Chinatown video with this name so this is that name that I am using.As I said before, this movie could be called "The King of Killers" namely because it is about an assassin called the King of Killers. He kills for free and only kills people who deserve it. As such he kills a high profile Japanese business man and upon his death a fund is activated to go to those who are the first to bring down the killer. Unfortunately, and this is the twist, somebody else was paid some money upon the businessman's death, and upon discovery, they think he killed him.The movie is basically an action packed adventure where at first it looks like a bumbling idiot and a naive mainlander are trying to hunt a professional killer, but it turns out that the idiot is trying to make sure that nobody thinks that he is the killer, which is true since he is a real idiot. What makes the movie cool is not the in-depth plot, or strong themes, but rather the cool action sequences. This movie has one of the best elevator shoot-outs that I have ever seen, and the final battle is one worth waiting for. What this movie is is a Hong-Kong action flick, and as one, it delivers.
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