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| writer = [[Ken Sanzel]]

| starring = [[Chow Yun Fat]]<br>[[Mira Sorvino]]<br>[[Michael Rooker]]<br>[[Jürgen Prochnow]]

| producer = [[Bernie Brillstein]]<br>[[Brad Grey]]

| distributoreproducer = [[SonyJohn PicturesWoo]]

| distributor = [[Columbia Pictures]]

| budget = €30,000,000

| budget = $28 million<ref name="boxoffmag">[http://www.boxoff.com/dec97story1.html Interview with Chow Yun-Fat] from the December 1997 issue of ''[[Box Office (magazine)|Box Office]]''</ref>

| released = [[6 February]] [[1998]] (<small>USA</small>)

| runtime = 87 min.<br>98 min. (extended version)

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| imdb_id = 0120008

| }}

'''''The Replacement Killers''''' is a [[1998]] [[in film|1998 film]], directed by [[Antoine Fuqua]] in his [[feature film]] debut. It stars [[Chow Yun Fat]] and [[Mira Sorvino]]. The film was [[Chow Yun Fat]]'s American debut, (but not his first shot on American soil){{fact}}.

The film earned $8 million during its opening weekend in the U.S. and a total of $19.2 million in U.S. box office<ref>[http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=replacementkillers.htm ''The Replacement Killers''] from [[Box Office Mojo]]</ref>

An "Extended Edition" of the film with approximately 11 minutes of additional footage was released on April 25, 2006.

An "Extended Edition" DVD of the film with approximately 11 minutes of additional footage was released on April 25, 2006.

==External links==

*{{imdb title|id=0120008|title=The Replacement Killers}}

*[http://www.geocities.com/Athens/8907/trk.html Unofficial site]

==Critical response==

Among [[Rotten Tomatoes]] critics, only 10 of 28 (36%) rated it "Fresh", though, the website's "Cream of the Crop" reviews were 60% favorable. [[Roger Ebert]], included in the latter group, liked the film's "simplicity of form and its richness of visuals."<ref>[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19980206/REVIEWS/802060303/1023 ''Chicago Sun-Times'' Review of ''The Replacement Killers''] by [[Roger Ebert]]</ref> He continued:

{{cquote|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 [[Cinema of Hong Kong|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 ''[[Dragnet (series)|Dragnet]]'' sound talky. The first-time director, Antoine Fuqua, is a veteran of commercials and music videos; with cinematographer [[Peter Lyons Collister]], he gets a sensuous texture onto the screen that makes you feel the roughness of walls, the clamminess of skin, the coldness of guns.

''The Replacement Killers'' is as abstract as a [[jazz]] instrumental, and as [[Cool (aesthetic)|cool]] and self-assured.}}

[[Stephen Holden]], in a review for ''[[The New York Times]]'', was less impressed, calling it a "seamless fusion of Hong Kong action-adventure style and cool, Los Angeles street chic...that is otherwise devoid of content"<ref>[http://movies2.nytimes.com/mem/movies/review.html?res=9E03E2DA153DF935A35751C0A96E958260 Ethical Killer Teams Up With a Gun-Toting Forger], a February 1998 review from ''[[The New York Times]]''</ref>.

==Trivia==

*Chow was described as "basically happy with how he comes across" in the film, though his limited English meant he had to concentrate on the mechanics of the English language, a distraction that "occasionally deflected him in his search for his character's 'anguish' over his plight in the film." <ref name="boxoffmag" />

*Sorvino provided a lot of behind-the-scenes help to Chow because of her ability to speak [[Standard Mandarin|Mandarin]].<ref name="boxoffmag" />

*[[John Woo]] served as one of the film's executive producers.

==References==

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[[Category:Films shot in Super 35|Replacement Killers, The]]

[[Category:Action films|Replacement Killers, The]]

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