Yet another movie review
Just re-watched The Replacement Killers from 1998. It is a violent action thriller about a hired assassin played by an Eastwood-like actor named Chow Yun-Fat who is trying to extract himself from a drug cartel in L.A. and meets a woman played by Mira Sorvino who can give him the passport he needs to get home.
It is interesting because Chow and Sorvino seem to have some on-screen chemistry (I understand Sorvino is almost fluent in Chinese in reality), but their relationship on screen is Platonic, and Chow’s character just smiles and says, “I’ll miss you,'” as he gets on his air-flight at the end of the movie. Sorvino is the daughter of Paul Sorvino, who I thought did a good job as the head of the Capulet household in Romeo + Juliet.
Action movies are not for everyone, and I am getting old for them. But violence is a fact of life, and this one is directed by Antoine Fuqua, who has seemed to excel at them prolifically.
I have been doing a lot of posts on re-watched films lately. The former The Washington Post literary critic Jonathan Yardley (the newspaper used to have a full book-review section) published a collection of textual fiction reviews called Second Reading a few years back where he returned to works he liked a lot when younger to decide if he still liked them. That is how I feel about these films.