The Replacement Killers

...is all style. It's a high-gloss version of a Hong Kong action picture, made in America but observing the exuberance of a genre where surfaces are everything.

...director Antoine Fuqua and cinematographer Peter Lyons Collister have put so much effort into the feel and appearance of the movie that it held my attention.

...a lurid love letter to the guns and poses aesthetic of Hong Kong action cinema.

...is a Hong Kong-style action thriller from American music-video director Antoine Fuqua that gets some of that kinetic style but not much of its substance.