A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
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The Rouge Cop and the Undercover Cop up against some gangster motherfuckers in John Woo's blueprint on how to make the motherfucker of all motherfuckin' action movies. The Jazz Club. The paperboy. The fuckin' birds at the teahouse. The first time Tequila shoots 2 guns at once. Automatic fuckin' weapons. Staircase ownage. Tequila's toothpick. White as a ghost. A chat with JW. High-tech computers. The last book your fuckin' ass will ever read. Pretty-pretty-oh-so-fuckin'-pretty flowers. Never trust an icky eel. Anthony Wong's hair. Fishin'. The impossible question: Who's a badder badass motherfucker; Mad Dog from Hard Boiled or Mad Dog from The Raid? Motorcycle madness. A grand fuckin' entrance. A Zippo. Paper cranes. Fun on a boat. Fuckin' Foxy. Mad…
"it happened so quickly... it was like a dream."
like mann, woo is a filmmaker of romance and moral codes on both sides of the law, of people that yearn for love and connection, trapped by institutions that swallow them. their jobs, their actions, their sense of 'right' and 'wrong' reduced to an infinitely layered blur of bodies, objects and movement in a perpetual state of collapse—it's abstract extravagance. there's an inherent romance to it, not just for the characters whose only means of expression it is, but for the audience too, and woo doesn't even pretend not to celebrate it with his lens. but with the cathartic destruction comes appalling collateral damage, both sides putting their fair share of innocence in the ground, locations of safety and reassurance transform into graveyards, the war between unhinged greed and systemic impotence, the only option: to get the fuck out.
Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God.
woah woah woah!
I have been sleeping on some John Woo!
Hard Boiled is the cinematic definition of heroic bloodshed in full capacity. 90s action movies continue to have my entire heart, pure adrenaline rush, the purest form of serotonin. I absolutely love a movie that forgets all forms of logic and supplies us with guns with infinite rounds of ammo— no time for reloading in epic action flicks! Bullets are flying off the walls and into bodies, non fucking stop. One of the most epic opening shoot-out scenes in cinematic history and what follows is a highly effective off-the-walls explosive ride!
Hard Boiled is hands down…
A catalogue of every image, theme and move John Woo had made his own in the previous five years blow up to an extreme beyond even his usual outsized melodramatics. Written as it was been filmed (when Tony Leung amazing introduction was shot he was supposed to be an actual psychotic killer) it remain coherent and surprising emotional effective thanks to how focused Woo’s images are. The film is predicted in a motif of collateral damage, unlike The Killer there is always an innocent around ready to be shot and even our heroes can’t do nothing but occasionally hit the wrong target. A place of healing is turned into an war zone between a whole inefficient government (who does more…
Can more movies open with a clarinet solo from our hero?
It’s balls to the wall action with little plot and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Are the explosions always necessary? If you’re John Woo, yes. Everything needs to explode sometimes, and that’s ok.
Also TONY LEUNG IS IN THIS! I adore the guy from all the Wong Kar-Wai movies and was not expecting to see him here.
You always know your hero is going to get out of it, but it’s a matter of how. How is he going to shoot his way out of a burning building holding with a baby in his hand? It’s all incredibly fun.
This is so radically violent compared to US action…
Kein Türöffner - ein Türsprenger. Und mehr. Noch ein Erweckungsfilm. Denn es war dieses Power-Play-Kunstwerk aus Blut, Blei, beidhändigen Ballet-Schlachten und Bulldoggen-Ehre, das mich so aufmerksam wie geil auf das Heroic Bloodshed eines John Woo machte. Auch wenn ich erst noch „The Killer“ und „Bullet in the Head“ brauchte, um zu verstehen, dass es längst nicht nur Geilheit, sondern schon Liebe war. Eine Liebe, die erst noch den Rausch abklingen lassen musste, den dieser nahezu perfekte Gun-Fu-Thriller erzeugt. Aber eine, die heute immer noch so stark ist, wie zu dem Zeitpunkt, als ich die ehrenvolle Gewalt-Oper dann das erste Mal ungeschnitten sehen konnte. Ein Meilenstein. Für mich. Für das Actionkino.
An absolutely ballistic, no-holds-barred, over-the-top yet purely unadulterated action extravaganza to come out from Hong Kong during the the early 90s, Hard Boiled raises the bar for action in cinema with its heart-pounding & jaw-dropping sequences and cements John Woo's reputation as the most influential director when it comes to action filmmaking.
The story of Hard Boiled concerns two ace cops; one is a tough-as-nails detective in his department while the other one works as an undercover agent and has risen sharply in the underworld over the years. The plot covers their initial friction with each other followed by a mutual partnership as the two eventually team up to take down & wipe out Hong Kong's most ruthless mobster & his crime syndicate.…
John Woo's Hard Boiled is an endlessly rewatchable modern classic, I hooted and hollered at literally every moment. Undoubtedly, one of the coolest and greatest action movies ever made.
Tequila and Alan are trying,
To keep bystanders from dying.
And hopefully, maybe,
They'll save a baby,
As all the bullets are flying.
John Woo really wrote, directed, and edited this and did it with such slickness you wouldn’t even know a real person was behind the camera. The perfect marriage between drama and action, and good drama at that. His set pieces have so much depth and innovation, it’s actually crazy to watch. The entire hospital stretch is like an hour long action sequence that somehow doesn’t let up for a single second. That’s talent! Tony Leung was excellent of course but I really enjoyed Chow Yun-fat’s performance as Tequila. Teresa Mo was great as well. What an odyssey!
