The Replacement Killers (1998)

Hong Kong action-movie superstar Chow Yun-Fat plays an assassin with a chip on his shoulder in The Replacement Killers (1998), the kinetic feature debut of music-video director Antoine Fuqua. Though he loathes the criminal lifestyle, a spate of bad luck causes John Lee (Yun-Fat) to cozy up to crime lord Terence Wei (Kenneth Tsang), a psychopathic villain who wants his new employee to off a police detective’s son. Naturally the hired gun refuses the order and ends up incurring the wrath of the Asian crime czar. Bullets fly throughout Fuqua’s popcorn thriller, but it’s Mira Sorvino who provides the biggest lift in her scantily clad appearance as a document forger.