Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Philip Chan, Teresa Mo, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Chow Yun Fat
A tough as nails cop teams with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.
DVD Release Date: July 24, 2007
Stats: 2,924 reviews
It's simple. If you like action movies AT ALL, then you should watch Hard-Boiled. It's two hours of stylish mayhem, wrapped around a serviceable story.
The gunplay and stunts really are remarkable. Shotgun blasts explode like rockets. No one gets shot only once, usually it's 8...( read more)
This is the only Woo film I like but that?s mainly due to Chow Yun-Fat?s performance!
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. A...( read more)
"Give a guy a gun, he's Superman. Give him two and he's God."...( read more)
John Woo's Hard Boiled is a scrumptious feast for action lovers - an explosively visceral, operatic tour de force of amazingly choreographed violence and blistering pyrotechnics that's iced with Woo
Every bit as mind-blowing as what it was hyped up to be. John Woo is the Michael Bay of the east, except Woo is actually a great director who knows how to blow shit up and kill people with style and substance. This movie starts and just keeps going, then stops just long enough to...( read more)
My thought is this: sure it has wonderfully choreographed action sequences, etc. etc. But what's the big deal, really? Is this film that much better than other dumb action movies like, say, Commando, to use an example? I am unconvinced. I suppose it may have been influential...( read more)
If you're ever looking to conduct a circle jerk at a National Rifle Association meeting, this is the movie to get the process started. As the last film director John Woo made before leaving Hong Kong, "Hard-Boiled" is cocaine for gun owners. It contains more bullet-riddled corpse...( read more)
If you're looking for an all out, in your face, shoot'em up kind of movie, this is it. My favorite scene was the shoot out at the Tea shop in the beginning of the movie which pretty much dictates how the action goes for the rest of the film. Although this movie was action packed ...( read more)
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There's an upcoming new R1 release of this film from Dragon Dinasty, in a 2 disc special edition.
Is there a widescreen version of this available on DVD? All I can ever find is crappy full frame pan & scan...
WORDS CAN NOT DESCRIBE HOW AMASING THIS FILM IS, THE ULTIMATE ACTION MOVIE, THIS MOVIE DEFINES THE ACTION GENRE. And it baffles me how it was done with only $4 000 000! JOHN WOO IS GOD. ALL HAIL JOHN WOO
The single greatest action movie ever made. Although The Killer is better in terms of being an overall movie.
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