Full-Time Killer (2001) Movie Review  Full-Time Killer concerns
a professional assassin named O (Takashi Sorimachi), a Japanese
living in Hong Kong (although he doesn’t speak Chinese) and
happens to be the top assassin in Asia. All of Asia’s most
lucrative murder contracts go through O because he’s known for
his efficiency — in fact, he’s so hardened that he will shoot a
former classmate who recognizes him by accident during one of
his hits. O is being pursued by an up-and-coming killer name Tok
(Andy Lau), a Chinese man who wants to replace O.  If the
premise sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the exact same
premise of an American movie about assassins called,
appropriately enough, Assassins, starring Sylvester Stallone and
Antonio Banderas. That movie, like Full-Time Killer, concerns a
brooding and somber killer with no life to speak off who is
being challenged by a young punk who has more guts than brains.
The Hitman Genre is something of an obsession with Hong Kong
films and there will usually be two o