BULLETS OF LOVE begins with a police
raid on a night club. An accumulation of years of work has merited a warrant
for the arrest of Night(Terence Yin Chi-Wai), a Triad involved in many criminal
activities. Sam (Leon Lai) is the arresting officer who also happens to
be the boyfriend of Ann (Asaka Seto), the attorney for the prosecution against
Night during his trial. When the trial ends with Night being sentenced to
prison time, Sam and Ann take a trip to France to get away from things for
a while. Unbeknownst to them, they are being tailed by a female assassin
who works for Night. The assassin is known to shoot a person three times
with a high powered rifle. The first bullet is so they know what is coming.
The second bullet to take away their will to live. The third bullet, in
the throat, so they can linger for a few minutes and feel their body shutting
down. While on a crowded elevator encased in glass, Ann is struck down by
the assassin while Sam tries in vein to save her. Devastated, Sam leaves
his police work behind and tries to settle down and start over. Things get
even more complicated when a mysterious Japanese woman who resembles Ann
enters his life.
BULLETS OF LOVE starts off with a bang but downshifts quickly. A love
story is sandwiched between some short lived intense action. What is very
interesting is that the action scenes are stylized and quickly edited
while the middle of the middle of the movie is more traditionally filmed.
It's almost like watching two different movies. This is not an action
movie. You'll be bored and disappointed if you are waiting more action
to kick in after the first act. Taken as a drama, BULLETS OF LOVE is a
decent movie. The movie actually resembles SHIRI in some aspects but on
a much smaller, more personal scale.
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