Bangkok Dangerous (1999)

Kong doesn't flinch as he kills because he can’t hear the cries of his victims or the thunder of the gun; he's deaf and mute.
An early film from the Pang Brothers in which they try hard to find an artistic voice and succeed most of the time. It’s exciting to watch it develop; like early John Woo. It’s dark, visually and thematically, lit partly by the surfacing emotions of the hard-boiled protagonist, but mostly it stays in the shadows.

3½ stylish kills and equally stylish cuts out of 5