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...little about "Hard Target" is usual. Casting pseudo-star Jean-Claude Van Damme must have sounded like a dream proposition--teaming the latest hot director with 1991's almost-a-hit actor. It seemed likely that the two draws, Woo and Van Damme, would cross-hype each other, pushing both firmly into the A-list...
There's a lot more to come from John Woo, but this is not the ideal preview one might have hoped...
...John Woo has been making films in Hong Kong for more than 10 years. After making his way through sex comedies and slapstick, he settled on action films as his genre of choice. But more than that, he came to dominate the genre and all of Hong Kong film. "A Better Tomorrow," his 1986 gangster film, remains the biggest money maker in Hong Kong cinema history...
...Killer" is so far his only film to receive attention in the US. Its limited tour of the art-house and college circuit in the past two years created huge interest in the works of Mr. Woo and other Hong Kong directors. A melodramatic story of a good-hearted assassin, "The Killer" features mayhem committed on a magnitude and with a magnitude of style rarely seen in this country...
...release of his first American film, "Hard Target," with Jean-Claude Van Damme prompted the following interview between Woo and members of the Boston area media on Thursday, August...