The Replacement Killers (1998)

Written by Ken Sanzel

Directed by Antoine Fuqua

Running Time: 100 minutes (approx)

Production Year: 1998

Rating: 18 Certificate

Production Country: USA

Filmed in Colour

John Lee (Yun-Fat Chow) is an assassin with a very troubled conscience. He owes a debt to Terence Wei (Kenneth Tsang), L.A.'s Chinatown drug-lord. In order to ensure the continued safety of his mother and sister back in Beijing, he must do the bidding of Mr. Wei, who runs his U.S. criminal empire with an iron fist.

Wei's son, Peter (Yau-Gene Chan) manages to get himself into a wild shootout with the police and is killed by detective Stan "Zeedo" Zedkov (Michael Rooker), so Wei orders Lee to retaliate by shooting Zedkov's small son, making sure that the child dies in his father's arms.

Perfectly able to cope with killing drug dealers and gangsters, Lee can't bring himself to murder a child. So he tries to flee, turning to forger Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino) for a fake passport.

However, Wei's men track Lee down, and he and Meg are forced into a reluctant partnership. Can they avoid Wei's hired guns, led by the heartless Kogan (Jurgen Prochnow), and stop the replacement killers (Danny Trejo and Til Schweiger).

This is Hong Kong action star Chow Yun-Fat's American debut.

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Cast

	Yun-Fat Chow		John Lee
	Mira Sorvino		Meg Coburn
	Michael Rooker		Stan 'Zeedo' Zedkov
	Kenneth Tsang		Terence Wei
	Jürgen Prochnow		Michael Kogan
	Til Schweiger		Ryker
	Danny Trejo		Collins
	Clifton Collins Jr.		Loco
	Carlos Gómez		Hunt
	Frank Medrano		Rawlins
	Leo Lee		Lam
	Patrick Kilpatrick		Pryce
	Randall Duk Kim		Alan Chan
	Andrew J. Marton		Stevie
	Sydney Coberly		Sara