Hard Boiled

Name: Hard Boiled
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime
Released: June 18, 1993
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 86

1993

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Shout! Studios | Release Date: June 18, 1993 | R

Summary: 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, getsMobsters 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.… Expand

Genre(s): Action, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 128 min

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100

Peter Stack

It is far too sophisticated and operatic to be dismissed as simply a cheap-thrills, blast-'em blowout. [19 Aug 1994, p.C14]

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Collider Jeremy Urquhart

Hard Boiled escalates perfectly, with the action starting out spectacular, and then getting increasingly grand in scale and ambition as things march along. The whole final act is particularly great, and largely responsible for making the movie an all-timer among action/crime flicks. Read full review

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Scott Tobias

Plenty of entertaining action movies have been made since John Woo's 1992 Hard Boiled, but really, what's the point? Read full review

David Browne

All this would be overkill if it weren’t for the fact that Woo’s use of freeze frame and slow motion serves to make Hard Boiled even more of an art-house action movie than any of its predecessors. Read full review

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Choreographically stunning like most of Woo’s work, especially before he headed west. Read full review

Tony Rayns

Anyone who saw The Killer will have a fair idea what to expect, from the intense male bonding to the hyper-kinetic editing style. What's new here is a rich vein of anarchic humour (will they evacuate the maternity ward before the hospital blows up?) and a bluesy back-beat of philosophical musings on a cop's sad lot. Read full review

Vincent Canby

Mr. Woo does, in fact, seem to be a very brisk, talented director with a gift for the flashy effect and the bizarre confrontation. Read full review

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