Killer (2000) | Hong Kong Movie World review

Killer (2000)

Universe Films | M Productions Limited | Buddy Film Creative Workshop Ltd.

Cast: Jordan Chan, Simon Lui, Mark Cheng, Ken Wong, Yoyo Mung,

Claire Yiu, Karel Wong, Kenneth Tsang, Lo Meng, Bruce Law

Story: Jackie Ma Screenplay: Edmond Pang, Simon Lui, Billy Chung

Producer: Kenneth Ma, Jackie Ma Executive Producer: Ng Kin Hung

Director: Billy Chung

Genre: Triad | Drama

"Having fun and having funeral, there is little difference."

Killer movie poster

"Why do you kill?" asks Yoyo Mung's character Ivy in KILLER, puzzling over why

Tung (Jordan Chan) and his business savvy buddies continue to work as savage triad

killers. I'd like to ask the same thing of the HK filmmakers who continue to crank out this

amoral garbage. How many senseless "killer" movies do there need to be? There must be

a market for this stuff cuz they keeps getting made.

As expected, KILLER is nothing special. A band of five (Jordan, Simon, Ken and Mark) are

famous killers in the triad world. They don't use guns to commit their crimes- just blades.

Keepin it old school, all they need is a knife and a skimask.

Born gangster Simon Liu (Po) is a cold, tough club owner who surveys his territory with 24 hr

video survelliance, Ken Wong (Yung) is a flashy party type, and Jordan Chan (Tung) basically

plays Jordan Chan. Mark Cheng (Mantis), who literally has about 3 speaking lines, predictably

plays a cold and hard guy who lives to shag. Sometimes I think he should just drop the

charade and become a porn star.

Then there's Yoyo Mung (Ivy), as Po's neglected girlfriend. Like in A Hero Never Dies, Yoyo

can't seem to pick her boyfriends. She always chooses killers. Lonely, she starts seeing

Jordan secretly. Will Simon get mad? Do you really care?

Actually, if you like your movies dumb, dank, and bleak, this unambitious triad flick does its

job competently. The cinematography is slightly interesting and the actors treat the material

seriously. The plot just talks about triad politics, evading the law, brotherhood, etc.

Nothing we haven't seen before, and it took at least 3 screenwriters to come up with this.

So if the sight of Claire Yiu snorting lines of coke off Mark Cheng's chest, a blown-off arm flying

thru the air like a frisbee, a gigantic gang rape, suicide by high rise apartment base jump ala

Pauline Chan, and a guy getting sodomized by an air gun sounds like fun, microwave some

popcorn and curl up with a copy of Billy Chung's KILLER.

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