It's still good in my eyes, slightly better than the last time I saw it in fact. The story was still conventional mostly, relying too much on elements found in other movies including a love subplot and goes far from Johnnie To's standards as I would say Wai Ka Fai had more to do with everything than To did. But for some reasons, there are things in the movie that I indeed love because of the good cast and crew doing what they always do; delivering the job fast and effectively.

The cast members (most of whom were already became Johnnie To's trademark actors), as always, are used well despite having to follow a script that's in English most of the time which can be hideous to hear at times (though I had no problems whatsoever). Andy Lau was good but not great, he's his charmy and showy self here and poses for the most part during action scenes and get to deliver cool lines which is entertaining. I could say the same thing about the Japanese actor who plays a silent type character falling for a woman that lives nearby and later they team up with each other, but I thought the naturalism of his character made him, while not as likable as Andy Lau, more believable. Simon Yam (the best actor in the movie in my mind) does a bit of different stuff here and I think it's refreshing that he can play a little more lively characters opposed to the stoic and quiet characters he often gets to play which is a bit boring to watch all the time. Kelly Lin and Cherrie Ying doesn't do much exceptional stuff but they still turned into good performances and were surprisingly capable of not overdoing their performances and such.

And, of course, the movie wouldn't have become as favored by many fans and followers of HK movies if it weren't for the action scenes which are quite plenty in numbers and are very involving and intense, keeping things happening when it has to and make situations interesting. Just to mention the varity of things the action features; there's assassinations, chases, shoot-outs (kinda similar-looking to John Woo's action scenes but still very different), stunts (was nice to see Andy Lau doing that stunt where a train passed by him, and it was real too!) and so on, nicely handled by To and crew.

Overall, I will have to say that FULLTIME KILLER is very good but don't expect a usual Johnnie To movie because it's too standard, out-of-style (for him) and doesn't look like a movie that belongs to him either.