Featuring some of the most spectacular shootouts ever captured on celluloid, The Killer is considered a key inspiration for modern classics like The Matrix and video games such as Max Payne. Drawing on influences ranging from Melville’s Le Samouraï to Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch, John Woo tells the story of a hitman (Chow Yun-Fat) who is not entirely without a conscience as he takes on one final job to pay for eye surgery for a young woman he accidentally blinded.