Rating of
3.5/4
Hard Boiled review
Daniel Corleone - wrote on 03/22/12
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.
