Hard Boiled ( Lat sau san taam ) Movie Information

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Overall Rank: 1760

Average Rating: 2.9/4

# of Ratings: 93

Theatrical Release Date: 06/18/1993

Language: Cantonese

Genre: Action, Crime

MPAA Rating: R

Director: John Woo

Actors: Yun-Fat Chow, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Teresa Mo, Philip Chan, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Hoi-Shan Kwan

Plot: As the mob smuggles guns into China, a daring raid leaves an ace detective without his partner. While the smugglers fight internally over territory, the detective works with an insider to bring down the entire operation. -- Chris Kavan

Daniel Corleone - wrote on 03/22/2012

Tony (Tony Leung) is an undercover cop while Officer "Tequila" Yuen (Chow Yun-Fat) is a competent cop. It was baffling how the book with the gun was found swiftly and Inspector Yuen doesn’t seem to run out of bullets. The picture was excessive in terms of explosions, bullets and violence. Not sure why the main antagonist had to include innocent patients and the slow motion's were a bit too much. If only it were more stylish as the director’s other films, the screenplay was not impressive and some scenes are just hard to swallow such as the “babies” scene. Performances from Leung and Fat were solid. Hard Boiled are definitely for hardcore action fanatics who enjoy old fashioned shootouts and undercover police work.

mitchellyoung - wrote on 08/10/2011

Most of the movie is one long action sequence, but it reveals John Woo at his finest as an action director. The shootout scenes are brutal, creatively shot, and feature iconic frames and stunts that are still copied by action films today. A film that thrives on pure adrenaline.

TheManWithNoName - wrote on 08/22/2009

The shootout maybe a little unrealistic, but when it's this stylish who cares? This is one of the best action movies ever made.

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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 …

FZero
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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.