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Hard Boiled [Sub: Eng]
A tough-as-nails cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers teams up with an undercover agent for their common pursuit of taking down the crime syndicate.
1925, China
4 September 1965, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, Hong Kong
16 November 1955, Kumamoto, Japan
5 November 1959, Hong Kong
28 July 1960, Hong Kong, China
21 October 1951, Taipei, Taiwan
27 June 1962, Hong Kong
2 September 1961, Hong Kong
30 April 1963, Hong Kong, British Crown Colony
December 11, 2010
A moody, tense, moving and action-packed crime drama -- one of Woo's very best.August 16, 2007
The action sequences here are less overtly beautiful than in his previous films, but they're far more complex and explosive.May 20, 2003
Mr. Woo does, in fact, seem to be a very brisk, talented director with a gift for the flashy effect and the bizarre confrontation.March 01, 2007
Hard Boiled takes Woo's signature gunplay to even more hyperbolic extremes than he had previously achieved.March 29, 2011
A striking yet overlong actioner...June 24, 2006
A supercharged thriller.January 27, 2011
The film is a life-support system for its third act.June 08, 2011
Cool, stylish, vastly entertaining Hong Kong actioner from John Woo, in top form.April 29, 2009
Accomplishes a lot within its time frame, and it's an accomplishment only Woo is capable of.August 09, 2005
John Woo's poetically violent action sequences are his trademark, and Hard-Boiled features three stunning examples.March 01, 2007
Choreographically stunning like most of Woo's work, especially before he headed West.March 01, 2007
The kinetic action set pieces of Hard-Boiled are so tightly-wound, so intense, that they will either exhilarate or scare off action fans bred on the relatively lame offerings provided by major Hollywood studios.