The Guillotines

The Guillotines (血滴子, 2012) is a Chinese historical action film you can watch online on iFILM. Director Andrew Lau brings to the screen one of the Qing Dynasty's most feared weapons — not a blade or a cannon, but a squad: a classified unit whose mechanical instruments left no witnesses and no trail.

Three hundred and forty-eight missions completed without a failure. The 349th ends differently. The target turns out to be something other than what the orders described, and the squad — led by Huang Xiaoming and Shawn Yue — has to decide whether following a command is the same as doing the right thing. Lau builds the period detail carefully; the action lands harder because the film takes the moral weight seriously. Stream The Guillotines (2012) online on iFILM.