The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull

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The 1989 Hong Kong thriller established Woo as one of the greats — Hollywood action films would lack dynamic gunfights and high-speed chases.
Woo coined the term "gun fu" with his style in The Killer and Hard Boiled — This influenced subsequent movies like John Wick, setting a template for heroic bloodshed.

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The Killer: without John Woo’s gun fu classic, Hollywood action films would be far more dull

The 1989 Hong Kong thriller established Woo as one of the greats, with its explosive gun fights, high-speed car chases and an incorruptible heroAll of your favourite action movies from the last 30 years would look very different without the impact of John Woo. They’d be far more dull for a start.

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