Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam) (1992)

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7.8	IMDB rating

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Directed by

John Woo

Starring (View all)

Yun-Fat Chow
Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen

Tony Leung Chiu Wai
Alan

Teresa Mo
Teresa Chang

Philip Chan
Supt. Pang

Philip Kwok
Mad Dog

Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
Johnny Wong

Hoi-Shan Kwan
Uncle Hoi

Wei Tung
Foxy

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John Woo
(story)

Barry Wong
(screenplay)

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The perfect recipe for a John Woo actioner...

13 years, 11 months ago at Jul 12 4:51

PvtCaboose91

2 votes

"Give a guy a gun, he's Superman. Give him two and he's God."

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 trademarks. At its core the film is a fairly standard cop drama with a limp emotional hook and cardboard characters, but wit... read more

An average movie

6 years, 11 months ago at Jul 13 13:05

johanlefourbe

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When I was a teenager, I had the opportunity to see ‘The Killer’ in the movie theater and since it was such a big classic, I had some huge expectations but, to be honest, it turned out to be a massive disappointment, probably one of the most disappointing movies I have ever seen. With this in mind, I had some rather mixed feelings before watching this other ‘classic’ from John Woo starring... read more

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A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.

Release date: 16 April 1992
UPC: 715515009041

Tags: Action (17), Crime (14), Hong Kong (13), Chinese (10), 1990s (10), Thriller (9), Martial Arts (7), 1992 (7), Foreign (6), Police (6), Mafia (5), Hospital (5), Siege (4), Triad (4), 90s (3), English (3), Gangster (3), Foreign Language (3), Gunfight (3), White Rose (3)

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" Mobsters are smuggling guns into Hong Kong. The police orchestrate a raid at a teahouse where an ace detective loses his partner. Meanwhile, the two main gun smugglers are having a war over territory, and a young new gun is enlisted to wipe out informants and overcome barriers to growth. The detective, acting from inside sources, gets closer to the ring leaders and eventually must work with the inside man directly. Hard Boiled, for many is not only a classic action film, but one of the be"

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