The Killer [Blu-ray]

Chow Yun-Fat, director John Woo's favorite actor, stars as a professional assassin. The moral outrages of his employers lead Yun-Fat, who adheres to his own code of honor, to seek a way out of his lifestyle. Towards this goal, the assassin befriends the cop (Danny Lee) who has been sent to stop him, and whom Yun-Fat has inadvertently blinded. The violence in The Killer is graphic and uncompromising, but with a near-balletic finesse that can (without fear of sounding pretentious) be labelled sheer artistry. The film ended up as the highest-grossing Hong Kong production since the days of Bruce Lee.