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Hard Boiled
(1992)
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Cast
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| Tony Leung Chiu Wai | ... |
Tony
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Teresa Mo | ... | |
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Philip Chan | ... | |
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Philip Kwok | ... |
Mad Dog
(as Cheng Jue-Luh)
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Johnny Wong
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Hoi-Shan Kwan | ... |
Mr. Hoi
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Wei Tung | ... |
Foxy
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Bowie Lam | ... | |
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Meng Lo | ... |
Lonny
(as Johnson Law)
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Bobbie Au-Yeung | ... |
Lionheart
(as Bobby Au Yeung)
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Shui Ting Ng | ... |
Ah Chung
(as Ng Shui-Tung)
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Kong Lau | ... |
Hospital Director
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Wai-Sun Lam | ... |
Hitman 1
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Benny Lam | ... |
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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. Written by Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>
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More exciting than a dozen Die hards See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for pervasive violence and some language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
Hong KongRelease Date:
16 April 1992 (Hong Kong) See more »Also Known As:
Hard Boiled See more »Filming Locations:
Hong Kong, ChinaBox Office
Budget:
$4,500,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Tequila: Yeah.
Alan: Fuck!
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Written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston
Sung by Teresa Mo and Philip Chan
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Did You Know?
Trivia
During the "hallway shot out" between Tony and Mad Dog, Tony Leung (Tony) was cut in the eye by a shard of glass. It happens when the two men are shooting each other from opposite sides of a set of glass windows. If you pay attention, Leung suddenly covers his face with his arm, an indication of when he was hit with the glass. Leung was given a day off to get medical attention and returned to the set to finish filming without problems. See more »Goofs
At the end of the Wyndham Teahouse shoot out, Tequila (Chow Yun Fat), covered in flour, executes the mysterious gunman in the kitchen at point blank range with a single shot of his pistol. However, the slide of the semi-automatic pistol does not blow backwards to cycle the next round after Tequila pulls the trigger. In reality, this would indicate that the pistol would have failed to fire. It is possible that they had the actor fire an empty gun, or a non-firing prop gun, for safety purposes. See more »Quotes
Alan: [shortly after Tequila reassured Alan that the guy he shot wasn't a cop] Was that guy I shot really a cop?Tequila: Yeah.
Alan: Fuck!
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Soundtracks
"Mona Lisa"Written by Ray Evans and Jay Livingston
Sung by Teresa Mo and Philip Chan
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"Hey!" Chow Yun Fat says, covering a baby's eyes. "X-Rated action!" He's not wrong: Hard Boiled is a film clearly not afraid to embrace its genre's excesses. While most modern action films (Smokin' Aces for one) aspire to some sort of grand intelligence while providing shoot-outs and explosions, this film is a reminder of times when action films suffered no such pretensions.
Crowds of people are gunned down without explanation and the smallest things explode for little or no reason. The bad guys are massively exaggerated cutthroat caricatures and the good guys never miss. Scenes of Fat and Leung running down corridors are inexplicably shot in slow motion. And, for all of these reasons, it is amazing. It's fast, it's exciting, and it never lets up.
Hard Boiled is loud, exciting, and, thanks to quite terrible dubbing and a ludicrous early 90's soundtrack, often unintentionally hilarious. It is a film that places entertainment firmly ahead of plausibility and logic, and is quite frankly awesome for it.