Upper Eastside Garden
7244 Biscayne Blvd
305.984.3231
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The Killer (1989)
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Thursday May 1, 2008 (8pm)
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$7
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Note: The price of admission includes picnic mats or seats in the garden, a bag of popcorn, and a drink.
Before there was a Reservoir Dogs, a Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, or any other hip, high-octane shoot 'em up ending in a Mexican standoff, there was John Woo's The Killer — perhaps Hong Kong's most influential cinematic export. Of course, the director got his gunplay pitting Sam Peckinpah against Sergio Leone, and his stylized story — an assassin (Chow Yun-Fat) accidentally blinds a young girl (Sally Yeh) and vows to kill to pay for her operation — came straight from 1967 French thriller Le Samouraï. Nonetheless, Woo makes the film his own, and an ultra-violent masterpiece at that.
