Dan DiNicola The Daily Gazette (Schenectady, NY) Jan 19, 2023 C-

This film might be the ultimate temp job, but stars Chow Yin-Fat and Mira Sorvino deserve better work.

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Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Jun 28, 2021 6/10

It isn't boring, but it could have amounted to a lot more, particularly as the final showdown is thrillingly chaotic and brutal.

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Leigh Paatsch Herald Sun (Australia) Jun 9, 2020 1.5/5

As for the plot here, let's just say it has something to do with hit men, drug lords and revenge, and leave it at that.

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Grant Watson Fiction Machine Apr 8, 2020 6/10

People with particularly indiscriminate taste in action cinema will enjoy The Replacement Killers on its own merits, and Chow and Sorvino fans will take away some enjoyment from watching them perform together

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David Nusair Reel Film Reviews Mar 10, 2016 2/4

...it's ultimately impossible not to wonder what Chow, making his English-language debut here, was thinking when he signed up for the project.

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Mar 19, 2013 C

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 C

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com May 19, 2009 B

The John Woo school of the ballet of bullets gets a full dose of Sam Peckinpah under the steady hand of director Antoine Fuqua's finely framed tale of revenge.

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Apr 27, 2006

An unworthy vehicle for a great star like Chow Yun-fat.

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Garth Franklin Dark Horizons Mar 14, 2005 1/5

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jan 29, 2005 C-

The Replacement Killers is not a very good film, but it is impossible to deny that it has a certain beauty.

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Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews Feb 3, 2004 4/10

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Jeanne Aufmuth Palo Alto Weekly May 14, 2003 2/4

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Brian Mckay eFilmCritic.com Mar 19, 2003 3/5

Will serve as a suitable replacement when [Chow Yun Fat's] better films are already rented out for the weekend.

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Scott Weinberg DVD Clinic Jul 27, 2002 3/5

Style over substance all the way, but at least it's not boring.

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Bill Chambers Film Freak Central Mar 8, 2002 1.5/4

The most dispiriting thing about The Replacement Killers is that it proves Chow [Yun-Fat]'s charisma repressible.

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James Kendrick Q Network Film Desk Feb 27, 2001 2/4

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Frank Ochieng rec.arts.movies.reviews Jan 1, 2000 2.5/4

A fair action thriller is offered here but what a difference this movie would make from merely being fair to that of being a fist-full-of-frenzied fun. A mild recommendation at best.

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Maitland McDonagh Film Journal International Jan 1, 2000

Fuqua...obviously knows a good thing when he sees one and lets Chow dominate The Replacement Killers so thoroughly that the movie's liabilities...slide by relatively painlessly.

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Brian Webster Apollo Guide Jan 1, 2000 66/100

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