Stars: Mira Sorvino, Chow Yun-Fat, Jurgen Prochnow, Michael Rooker, Patrick Kilpatrick, Carlos Gomez, Ken Tsang, Til Schweiger, Danny Trejo, Frank Medrano, Steven Garcia, Clifton Gonzalez Gonzalez, Randall Duk Kim

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Summary: John Lee has a history as a hired killer and uses this to open doors in order to bring his family safely from Beijing to America. On arrival he falls in with a powerful underworld figure called Mr Wei but soon finds himself on the run...

Versatile Hong Kong box office giant Chow Yun-Fat makes a Hollywood splash as a Chinese hitman beholden to a drug kingpin (Tsang, in an interesting reversal of his Hong Kong "crusty cop" persona). The good news is that he's free after one hit; the bad news is that the drug lord wants revenge on a cop who killed his son--by killing the cop's son. A tough-talking passport forger creates a new identity for our hero, but they've soon got to fight their way out to stay alive. First-timer Fuqua provides eye-candy visuals but little of the melodrama of his Hong Kong forebear (and executive producer), John Woo.

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This didn't turn out to be quite the deserving American vehicle for Hong Kong action superstar Chow Yun-fat that it should have been. But it is an entertaining potboiler about a hired gun (Chow) who fails to carry out an assignment to kill a cop (which would leave the fellow's son without a father), and becomes a target himself when the contract is handed over to other assassins. Mira Sorvino plays a document forger who is drawn into the fray, pairing up with the hero as they fight their way out of bad spots. The whole enterprise is a little too routine, but the action is sharp and the battles are imaginative and crisp. Director Antoine Fuqua has a by-the-numbers feeling for the influence of Hong Kong on contemporary thrillers (this film was also produced by John Woo), and that's enough to make The Replacement Killerspurely enjoyable if not exactly a revelation. --Tom Keogh

Aspect Ratio:	Wide Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical, Interactive Menus, Scene Access, Filmographies
Year:	1997
Release Date:	February 18, 2002
Runtime:	84 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	C D R 26297 C E
Keywords:	Killers, General, Edition, Wide, Screen, Drama, Collector's, Replacement
Genre:	Drama