Beyond Hypothermia 1996 123movies

Watch: 攝氏32度 1996 123movies, Full Movie Online – A mysterious and highly skilled hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After striking up a relationship with a noodle vendor, she decides to travel to South Korea to complete one last job. Unfortunately, the dead man’s bodyguard is out for revenge..
Plot: A mysterious and highly successful hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After beginning a relationship with a noodle vendor, she decides to travel to South Korea to complete one last job. Unfortunately, the dead man’s bodyguard is out for revenge.
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Ratings:

	6.7/10 Votes: 1,166
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	N/A Votes: 22 Popularity: 1.96 | TMDB

Reviews:

twists undercutting genre convention and audience expectations
This is certainly one of the best made girl-assassin films that have formed a genre of their own in Asia over the past 30 years. Conforming to the conventions of the genre, we have an attractive young woman whose early experiences have led her to adopt the life of a cold-blooded killer for hire; we have her gradually grow aware of her own emotional emptiness; we have her meet a man she could really go for if she didn’t always have to remain ready to kill just about anybody; we have the betrayal by one of her few trusted associates; and we see her develop a plan for resolving all the dilemmas these situations present her with. In short, very little new in the story.

What’s new is the manner in which it is all handled. The girl-assassin genre picture is typically handled in a rather over-the-top action film style, because the basic premise of the genre is really pure fantasy. I’m not saying there aren’t female assassins in real-life; but they certainly don’t share either the luxurious payoffs, the existential dread, or the romantic longings that we find in girl-assassin movies. In fact they’re lives are probably little different from that of the male mob or government killer. We just want them to be different because they’re women; and the girl-assassin film plays to this.

The present film certainly starts off in this direction, but very gradually, but at last inevitably, turns our expectations on their head. The guy our girl-assassin falls in love with here isn’t very smart, but he is certainly very ordinary. The big-pay-offs for her killing never seem to bring her any luxury. And her romantic longings are doomed about half-way through the picture when she has to shoot a five-year-old girl who has witnessed one of her hits – and does. From this point on, we know she’s doomed; she may never be caught or killed, but she can never live with herself after this.

Along with these twists undercutting genre convention and audience expectations, the film’s visual style also gradually becomes increasingly realistic as it goes along. At the end, we’re no longer in the same glitzy universe most girl-assassins inhabit, but a dead-end street looking very much like one we might ourselves wander down, but for the grace of whatever divinity watching out for us.

But there’s no divinity watching after this film’s girl-assassin. And the ending is probably the most down-beat of any film in the genre. But it is perfectly true to the situation.

Very dramatic, well-performed, nicely put-together – but, be warned: very depressing.

Very stylish, but I still think the Japanese are better at horror than action.
The description of Beyond Hypothermia really sounded a lot more interesting on the back of the movie box than the movie turned out to be. It is a very stylish thriller about a deadly assassin who constantly dreams of having a normal life with a husband and children, but it really doesn’t do anything new in the genre. My favorite thing about the movie was the way it is cut together, especially many of the death scenes.

The first assassination in the movie, for example, shows what you normally see in such a scene, the close up of the scope with the killer’s eye behind it, the victim going about his business oblivious that he’s in someone’s crosshairs, the slow motion, etc. But the actual death avoids showing the man getting shot. Instead, we see the two guys behind him pouring wine out of a wine bottle that suddenly explodes (a curious occurrence that they mysteriously respond to with laughter).

As I was watching the movie, I was reminded of the stylish originality of movies like The Way of the Gun, as well as a few other foreign films that I’ve seen recently in which massive numbers of people get shot, such as the disturbing but hugely impressive Battle Royale, and the equally disturbing and probably even more impressive Portuguese film City of God. One thing that I really liked about this movie, as well as the ones I just mentioned, is that even though an enormous number of people are shot dead, it is not done in such a relentless way that you completely stop caring. No, you’re not going to jump out of your seat every time some extra gets shot, but watch a movie like John Woo’s Killer and you’ll see how large numbers of gunshot killings can be numbing to the point of boredom. Not exactly what you would expect from John Woo, who otherwise is a very skilled action director (except for that Windtalkers mess).

Here’s one thing I didn’t understand, though. At one point in the movie there’s a lot of bad guys chasing the god girl through oncoming traffic, and the bad guys keep getting hit by cars. Now, it is to be expected that people are going to be hit by cars when they’re sprinting into oncoming traffic, but these guys are chasing after the woman that is supposed to be Japan’s deadliest assassin, and they don’t even have the sense not to run right in the middle of lanes of traffic when they’re chasing her down the street! No wonder they can’t catch her!

It’s true that the movie doesn’t cover much new ground, but it is short enough to remain worth watching, if only for its style. Sadly, I made the mistake of renting the dubbed version, and I am fairly confident that the original film with subtitles is even more enjoyable. I don’t know what it is about dubbed movies, they just seem so fake with someone so obviously voicing over the lines. Look for the original language version, because it’s worth checking out.

Other Information:

Original Language cn
Runtime 1 hr 26 min (86 min), 1 hr 30 min (90 min) (USA), 1 hr 25 min (85 min) (Hong Kong)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Romance, Thriller
Director Jeong-il Choi, Ki-bong Du, Patrick Leung
Writer Roy Szeto
Actors Chien-Lien Wu, Ching Wan Lau, Jae-Suk Han
Country Hong Kong, South Korea
Awards N/A
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (original mix), Dolby Digital (French release)
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory Mandarin Laboratory (International) Ltd., Hong Kong
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process Spherical (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (spherical)