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Admirable film.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

When talking to friends about The Killer,I would get told about John Woo's Heroic Bloodshed epic Hard Boiled,but despite seeing Killer a number of times,I never got round to seeing this title. With a Hong Kong challenge coming up on ICM,I decided it was time to get on the boil.View on the film:Bringing the curtain down on his Heroic Bloodshed/Hong Kong era in a similar fashion to Dario Argento's 1987 Giallo Opera, (both films did not do as well as expected in their domestic markets)co-writer/(with Barry Wong and Gordon Chan) co-star/ directing auteur John Woo reunites with cinematographer Wong Wing-Hang to conclude the visual motifs that span his credits,which fly into view from the opening bird cages in the tea house shoot-out shaking with slo-mo shootings, freeze frames and mountains of debris landing on Woo and Wing-Hang's "Bullet Ballet." Holding everyone hostage in a hospital, the pristine, metallic walls sharply reflect Woo's ultra-stylisation, fired up with unleashed whip-pans and extended tracking shots that give the cracking action a breathless atmosphere.Changing the plot just a week before filming, the decision by Wong/Chan and Woo to pour Tequila on the side of the law brilliantly crystallises the themes of Heroic Bloodshed, via the rich loyalty between Tequila and Alan, (named after Alain Delon's Le Samouraï loner) the feisty attitude of Teresa Chang to get deeply involved in the fighting and a relaxed mind-set on using extreme measures to take out cops/baddies. Introducing Tequila playing Jazz, the writers cleverly place moments of close-up calm between the action to dig into the contemplation Tequila makes over how to get the most people out of the hospital alive. Facing bloodshed for the final time, Chow Yun-Fat gives a blistering performance as Tequila,who bounces along lively with Tony Chiu-Wai Leung's anxious Alan,and keeps a knife-edge alert in the explosive battles that never go off the boil.

"Hard Boiled" (aka "Lat sau san taam") is indeed the embodiment of the pinnacle of director John Woo's career and it is definitely one of the movies that helped define the action genre of the 1990s for the Hong Kong cinema.While realisms takes a backseat throughout the course of "Hard Boiled", then the action and adrenaline takes the lead, and those things do carry the movie quite well. Everything in the movie is so outrageous that realisms has no chance of bidding in with anything. Bullet count? Don't even bother, because that is non-existing here. So every single handgun and rifle has infinite ammo, well right until it becomes a pivotal scene for the storyline, then suddenly there is no more ammo.The movie starts out in a high pace and it doesn't really slow down. So that was a great accomplishment on behalf of director John Woo.The storyline, while it is not the most complex of storylines and plot ever to have been constructed, is actually entertaining and does have some nice turns to it. Was it predictable? It most certainly was. But it is the type of storyline that picks you up and carry you along for a great action-packed thrill ride.One of the more impressive things about "Hard Boiled" aside from the amazing action sequences, was the cast. They had Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung and Anthony Wong together in this movie; three of the major names in Hong Kong cinema."Hard Boiled" is actually a rather violent movie if you take a step back and look at it from an aesthetic viewpoint. There is a lot of violence in the movie and a lot of innocent bystanders do get gunned down throughout the course of the movie. But doesn't that sort of add some perverse sense of realism as well, because psychotic people would actually succumb to such wanton random violence and bloodshed.I have watched "Hard Boiled" many times, and return to it every now and again solely because of the impressive action and the ultra fast pace that there is to the movie. And "Hard Boiled" was actually one of the reasons why I have such a profound and deep love for the Hong Kong cinema.

Am a huge fan of yum-fat chow this movie is super, casting is good, fear less cops , undercover operations the Ton of gun fights, Office romance, It's a good action movie to watch Actually I watch the movie when I was kid few days before I watch again still so Interesting to watch again. Thanks to John whoo creating a wonderful story.

Hard Boiled is my number 1 favorite Hong Kong John Woo action film that I love to death! I absolutely love this movie to death I love it. It is one of my personal favorite movies. Hard Boiled (1992) is literally John Woo's best Hong Kong action film ever made of all time! The movie is a hard-core action, I have ever seen. It is actually the best Hong Kong action film for me. It belongs right up there with Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) the best action classic film of all time. Chow Yun-Fat, toothpick in mouth, a gun in each hand. That's all of the plot you need to know. In fact, this is THE best pure action epic ever filmed. This is my film, my personal favorite Hong Kong action film of all time."Give the guy a gun and he's superman, give him two and he's God."Not even Jackie Chan can mess with this film or beat it. The only Jackie Chan film that is close to this film is Police Story. In my opinion Hard Boiled is John Woo's best HK action movie from the 90's and a true masterpiece along with Hard Target (1993) his first American movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme in the main role. Chow Yun-Fat stars as Tequila, a cop hell-bent on bringing down the gun smugglers responsible for his partner's death. He teams up with an undercover cop Tony Leung whose secret identity as a Triad hit man hangs on thread.Hard Boiled is my favorite John Woo's HK action movies. This action movie with twists around, The Hong Kong Cinema Hard Boiled has everything in it, no CGI, the stunts are real, the explosions are bigger and the plot of the film is amazing you can get in to the story without guessing what is going to happened and what the plot is about. The warehouse scenes and a shooting a motorcycles in an explosions from Tequila is my favorite scenes in the movie. Sometimes to me it come for this movie is similar to Miami Vice when Tony Leung was undercover cop on a boat he remind me on Sonny Crockett, but the shout outs in this film are awesome. Just Miami Vice TV series where more about drug cartels, this is arms dealer weapons about triads. The stunts are real and very dangerous. There was a hospital siege which was actually Die Hard in a hospital. Hard Boiled is a classic action film from Hong Kong, they don't make movies like this anymore. Phillip Chan is also in this film which I forgot to mention in my review Philip Chan was also in Van Damme's Bloodsport. You have a great action sequences in the tea house, where the guns are hitting in the bird cage, he shoots a dozen guys and saves a baby, the hospital sequences are real. The first time I saw this film I had no idea that how great film it is, the greatest movie of all time in the cinema. John Woo is also as a bartender in this film. The hospital sequences for me is real, the action is real. The best Chow Yun-Fat and John Woo movie ever made. Hard Boiled is a 1992 Hong Kong action film written by Barry Wong and directed by John Woo. It stars Chow Yun-fat as Inspector "Tequila" Yuen, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai10/10 I love this movie to death it is my favorite Hong Kong Action film and it is my second favorite film that I love. It is also my number 2 favorite action film.