Bullet for Hire (1991)
Reviewed by: Inner Strength on 2002-01-12
Summary: Very confusing, but worth seeing
Bullet For Hire is a hard movie to review I think, as there are some really good points, and at the same time some really bad ones. It seems to switch genres every 5 minutes and nobody seems to know what anybody is supposed to be doing.

Simon Yam is a professional killer who’s boss has asked him to train a new guy from Vietnam (Jacky Cheung). Jacky Cheung screws up badly on several occasions and Simon Yam has to turn up to sort things out. It started off looking like a good movie, but something happened that I must admit shocked me. Jacky has to kidnap a girl and her mother, but due to messing things up again, Simon steps in and shoots the mother point blank in front of her 6 year old daughter. They then take her to her boss where she is also murdered along with her father who works for the same people. Yet after all this, there is a lot of comedy, and I thought this whole thing is wrong.
Eventually after a lot of other killing, there is a massive gun battle where just about everyone is killed, and these last few scenes did keep me on the edge of my seat, wondering who was going to survive out of Simon and Jacky (because it was very predictable that one of them was going to die, and the one who did was the one I guessed, but I won't say in case you want to see this).

I can't really compare this movie to another one, because there is really nothing quite like it I can think of, but the nearest I could say was it being a bit like City War (only as far as story goes).

Rating (of 5): 2.5

(This rating is based on the year & genre, so don't think it's based as a comparison on new releases etc.)

Reviewer Score: 5