The Replacement Killers is a 1998 American action film, directed by Antoine Fuqua in his directorial debut. It stars Chow Yun-fat and Mira Sorvino. The film was Chow's American debut, but not his first shot on American soil; he previously appeared in John Woo's A Better Tomorrow 2, which was filmed partially in New York.
The film earned $8 million during its opening weekend in the U.S. and a total of $19.2 million in U.S. box office.
An "Extended Edition" DVD of the film with approximately 11 minutes of additional footage was released on April 25, 2006.
John Lee (Chow Yun-fat) is a hitman hired by a Chinese Triad boss named Wei (Kenneth Tsang) to kill the 7-year old son of an L.A. cop, Stan Zedkov (Michael Rooker), who killed Wei's son during a shootout. He finds his conscience will not allow him to do it, and the Triad boss Wei responds by threatening Lee's family back in China as well as hiring other hitmen to finish the job of killing the child. Desperate to return and protect his family, Lee turns to forger Meg Coburn (Mira Sorvino) to provide him with a new passport, but Wei's men track them down and shoot up her office before she can complete the papers. Now Coburn and Lee
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