Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
3.5/4
"Hard Boiled" by Yojimbo
Yojimbo - wrote on 03/04/2012
A renegade cop teams up with an undercover agent to bring down a gun runner with a massive arms cache hidden in a local hospital. John Woo is pretty useless when it comes to anything but action, so it comes as little surprise that his best film by far includes very little else. And action it has in spades! The now familiar tough guy cop clad in sunglasses and duster coat, leaping through the air in slow motion, twin pistols blazing has now passed into cliche, but Woo invented it. Woo's artistic take on action influenced everyone from James Cameron to the Wachowski brothers and Robert Rodriguez would probably be gainfully employed behind the counter of the nearest Taco Bell without this film. The action is non-stop and absurdly over the top, and if it weren't it wouldn't have worked half …
Rating of
2.5/4
Some editing would have helped.
FZero - wrote on 02/02/2008
The movie starts out showing promise with a couple of wicked action scenes in a restaurant and warehouse. But the last half of the movie completely wasted this with a really long and rather boring hospital shootout. I was left looking at the time wondering when it was all going to end. I love action movies so it surprised me that there was such a thing as too much action, but there is only so much shooting of faceless and endless henchmen I could take. Chow Yun-Fat was pretty much the same guy he is in all his Asian cinema movies which isn't a bad thing. Tony Leung was solid as usual even though he doesn't have much meat in the part as some of his more serious roles. Overall I expected to like this movie much more but the endless shootout really turned me off.
