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handgun assault while Coburn surfaces moments later, driving a truck through the melee, incapacitating
Michael, and later killing him. When Collins fires from a high perch on Lee and Coburn, Lee soon outflanks Collins, killing him from behind. Finally, Lee corners Wei on a fire escape platform. Though both men have emptied their guns, Lee is first to reload. Wei promises Lee that the boy and Lee's family will still die, but Lee replies, "Not in your lifetime," and kills him. Though Zedkov arrives before Lee and Coburn can get away, he lets them go, taking only their guns.
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1062:, Leonard Klady viewed the film as being a "big, loud music video that's not particularly interested in content. It's a rudderless style piece; as the old saw cautions, accept no substitutes." Regarding the film's set design and production qualities, he noted that, "while an apt homage, the set pieces here are technical but not visceral, feeling manufactured rather than organically integrated into the plot."
1025:"What I liked about the film was its simplicity of form and its richness of visuals. There's a certain impersonality about the story; Chow and Sorvino don't have long chats between the gunfire. They're in a ballet of Hong Kong action imagery: bodies rolling out of gunshot range, faces frozen in fear, guys toppling off fire escapes, grim lips, the fetishism of firearms, cars shot to pieces, cops that make
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all the things that go along with that system. There are a lot of people that have a lot of say, especially when you're that young in the studio world. You learn that it is a business. I think for me, what I learned was I still love making movies, and I know what I don't want to do. The thing that I learned the most out of that movie was what I don't want to do."
1108:. Antoine Fuqua's action movie is entirely free of surprise. It breaks no rules." He did however muse that "Chow's pretty face and cool presence are inescapable. You don't enjoy this movie, so much as you conduct a road test for the Hong Kong actor. Yes, he can survive in an English language picture!" In
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Concerned that Lee and Coburn will make their way back to his base of operations, Wei makes plans to flee the country and hunt down Lee's mother and sister himself. However, when two guards open the main gate for Wei and his entourage to leave in a limo, Lee is just outside. He launches a two-handed
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Holed up in a hotel, Coburn finishes altering Alan's passport for Lee. The two exchange stories, and Coburn becomes sympathetic to Lee. Feeling compelled to stop the killing of Zedkov's son before leaving the country, Lee forces one of Wei's men to reveal the plan, which is to kill Stevie while he
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opened in a distant 21st place with $ 131,727 in revenue. The film went on to top out domestically at $ 19,204,929 in total ticket sales through a 5-week theatrical run. For 1998 as a whole, the film would cumulatively rank at a box office performance position of 90. Worldwide, the film grossed $
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called it "as abstract as a jazz instrumental, and as cool and self-assured." Discussing the film's style, he remarked that it was a "high-gloss version of a Hong Kong action picture, made in
America but observing the exuberance of a genre where surfaces are everything." In
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temple, to make arrangements to have his family moved to a secure location. Infuriated by Lee's disobedience, Wei orders his head lieutenant, Michael Kogan, to lead the hunt for Lee, and has his people in China begin the search for Lee's family.
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Angeles street chic has a certain seductive charm, it is the only charm of a movie that is otherwise devoid of content." Edward Guthmann in the
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came in first place during that weekend grossing $ 23,027,838. Its revenue dropped by 49% in its second week of release, earning $ 4,068,335. For that particular weekend, the film fell to sixth place still screening in 1,936 theaters.
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and his father are at a movie festival inside a cinema. Lee and Coburn, who insists on helping, arrive barely in time to prevent Ryker and
Collins from killing the boy, and Ryker is killed by Lee in the subsequent gunfight.
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from a photo booth and phones Alan, who offers the use of his passport. When Lee arrives at the temple, he discovers that Alan has been tortured to the point of death. Alan tells Lee that his family was moved to
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premiered in theaters nationwide in the United States on
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Hollywood along with an edited HBO special: "Where the Action is". A
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American acting debut for Chow, as his previous film credits included
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isn't bad. It's beautifully shot by first-time feature director Antoine Fuqua, whose eye for sensual surfaces, deft camera moves and elegant framing was refined with commercials and music videos."
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brought her a step closer to her goal of making a film in Mandarin and working with a Chinese director. Prior to the start of filming, Sorvino had blown out her voice from screaming in reshoots of
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was released on August 9, 2005. The disc features DVD quality picture; languages in Chinese, English, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, and Thai, with viewing options for color and black and white.
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said the film was "so numbingly ritualistic that even the well-choreographed gun battles, probably the most Woo-like aspects of the film, lose much of their potential impact." Writing for
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2712:
2678:
2677:
2536:Brooklyn's Finest
2336:978-0-7864-4572-1
2317:978-1-933330-21-1
2298:978-1-57806-776-3
2275:978-0-8135-4366-6
2256:978-0-7864-4460-1
2237:978-0-335-21923-0
2218:978-1-59474-042-8
2195:978-0-395-84366-6
2172:978-0-8021-3670-1
2149:978-0-415-92810-6
2130:978-0-240-81397-4
2059:. 14 April 2021.
1858:Chicago Sun-Times
1231:Columbia Pictures
1229:. United States:
1065:Russell Smith of
1052:Chicago Sun-Times
1043:
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996:Critical response
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347:. However, Lee's
283:Columbia Pictures
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141:Columbia Pictures
61:Bernie Brillstein
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2506:Tears of the Sun
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2354:Official website
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1022:
1013:weighted average
893:was released on
813:Additional music
802:
657:
652:
640:Varèse Sarabande
630:
629:
625:
592:
437:as Michael Kogan
303:Varèse Sarabande
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177:
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2689:
2674:
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2654:
2643:
2633:
2626:The Equalizer 3
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2613:
2603:
2593:
2586:The Equalizer 2
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2553:
2543:
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2523:
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2493:
2483:
2473:
2455:
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2276:
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2257:
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2196:
2179:
2173:
2165:. Grove Press.
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2150:
2137:
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2114:
2109:
2108:
2098:
2096:
2081:
2080:
2076:
2066:
2064:
2055:
2054:
2050:
2040:
2038:
2029:
2028:
2024:
2012:Wayback Machine
2002:
1998:
1988:Wayback Machine
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1971:
1959:Wayback Machine
1949:
1945:
1935:Wayback Machine
1924:Holden, Stephen
1922:
1918:
1906:Wayback Machine
1896:
1892:
1882:Wayback Machine
1872:
1865:
1853:Wayback Machine
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1822:
1820:
1813:cinemascore.com
1807:
1806:
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1792:Wayback Machine
1783:
1779:
1773:Rotten Tomatoes
1769:Wayback Machine
1760:
1756:
1746:
1744:
1737:JP's Box-Office
1731:
1730:
1726:
1717:
1715:
1708:Box Office Mojo
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1686:
1679:Box Office Mojo
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1668:
1659:
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1650:Box Office Mojo
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1173:on May 18, 2013
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1120:
1118:Crew's response
1049:writing in the
1001:Rotten Tomatoes
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969:
961:Video on demand
887:
876:
815:
810:
800:
737:"John Reflects"
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622:
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570:
515:
510:
480:Randall Duk Kim
435:Jürgen Prochnow
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326:
314:Rotten Tomatoes
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134:
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93:Jürgen Prochnow
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5:
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2491:
2481:
2470:
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2467:Films directed
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2088:The A.V. Club
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