10 Great Movies With 100% Rotten Tomatoes Ratings You Probably Missed

10. The Killer

Hong Kong director John Woo's tribute to the films of Jean-Pierre Melville and Martin Scorsese, The Killer, was itself a key film which inspired a generation of action movies to follow. Starring Chow Yun-fat as a hitman who accidentally nearly blinds a singer in a nightclub hit, it remains one of Woo's most visually impressive and engrossing films. While John Woo first demonstrated his knack for staging incredible shootouts with a balletic quality in his earlier film A Better Tomorrow, with The Killer he truly cemented his reputation as the master of the genre which would be dubbed "heroic bloodshed" by Rick Baker, editor of the magazine Eastern Heroes. The conceit of two central protagonists on either side of the law - with Danny Wong's policeman going up against Yun-fat's hitman - can be seen more recently in films such as Martin Scorsese's The Departed (itself a remake of Infernal Affairs, Johnny To's action drama which owes a debt to John Woo). The only shame is that Woo and Yun-fat never managed to match the quality of their Hong Kong collaborations when they made the transition to America - it's a familiar tale, as the same fall in standards beset the films of Jackie Chan when he too decided to try and break into Hollywood.