Hard Boiled

Original title: Lat sau san taam

19921992
K-18K-18
2h 8min

Chow Yun-Fat in Lat sau san taam (1992)

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Action Crime Thriller

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

Director
- John Woo
Writers
- John Woo(story)
- Barry Wong(screenplay)
- Gordon Chan(screenplay)
Stars

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Awards
- 3 wins & 4 nominations

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Hard Boiled

Chow Yun-Fat in Lat sau san taam (1992)

Chow Yun-Fat in Lat sau san taam (1992)

Chow Yun-Fat in Lat sau san taam (1992)

Chow Yun-Fat in Lat sau san taam (1992)

Chow Yun-Fat in Dip huet seung hung (1989)

Chow Yun-Fat in Lat sau san taam (1992)

Lat sau san taam (1992)

Chow Yun-Fat in Lat sau san taam (1992)

Chow Yun-Fat in Lat sau san taam (1992)

Chow Yun-Fat in Lat sau san taam (1992)

Lat sau san taam (1992)

Lat sau san taam (1992)

Insp. 'Tequila' Yuenas Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen

Tony Chiu-Wai Leung

Alanas Alan

Teresa Changas Teresa Chang

Supt. Pangas Supt. Pang

Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok

Mad Dogas Mad Dog
(as Kwok Chun-Feng)

Anthony Chau-Sang Wong

Johnny Wongas Johnny Wong
(as Anthony Wong)

Uncle Hoias Uncle Hoi
(as Kwan Hoi Sang)

Foxyas Foxy
(as Tung Wai)

Benny Makas Benny Mak

Lonnyas Lonny
(as Johnson Law)

Bobbie Au-Yeung

Lionheartas Lionheart
(as Bobby Au Yeung)

Ah Chungas Ah Chung
(as Ng Shui-Tung)

Hospital Directoras Hospital Director

Hitman 1as Hitman 1

Hitman 2as Hitman 2

Hitman 3as Hitman 3

Jimmyas Jimmy

Librarianas Librarian

Director
- John Woo
Writers
- John Woo(story)
- Barry Wong(screenplay)
- Gordon Chan(screenplay) (uncredited)
All cast & crew
See more cast details at IMDbPro

The Killer

7.8

A Better Tomorrow

7.5

A Better Tomorrow

Bullet in the Head

7.6

Bullet in the Head

A Better Tomorrow II

7.3

A Better Tomorrow II

Once a Thief - Kerran varas, aina varas

6.8

Once a Thief - Kerran varas, aina varas

Hard Target

6.2

Red Cliff

7.4

Zhui bu

5.2

Ying hung boon sik III: Zik yeung ji gor

5.9

Ying hung boon sik III: Zik yeung ji gor

Lung foo fung wan

7.1

Lung foo fung wan

Yee dam kwan ying

6.4

Yee dam kwan ying

Infernal Affairs

8.0

Infernal Affairs

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. —Ed Sutton <esutton@mindspring.com>

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Taglines
- As a cop, he has brains, brawn, and an instinct to kill.
Genres
Certificate
- K-18
Parents guide

Trivia
During the filming of the scene in which Tequila is running down the exploding hallway with the baby in his arms and explosions at his back was shot twice as John Woo wasn't happy with the first take -- the explosions were too far behind Yun-Fat Chow. For the second take, he took control of the explosives button, per Chang, and set it off far closer than Chow was expecting. "He was really running for his life." Chow apparently was professional enough to ask how it looked after the shot was finished, "but then he turns around and says 'that motherf*cker.'"

Goofs
Throughout the film, characters fire more bullets than their guns would realistically allow without reloading, John Woo actually explained that he does this on purpose because reloading slows down the action scene.

Quotes
Superintendant Pang: Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God.

Alternate versions
The Chinese censors requested cuts to the scene where Tequila is graphically shooting thugs in the hospital when he is holding the baby.

Connections
Featured in The Last Days of the Board (1999)

Soundtracks
Hello
Written by Lionel Richie
Sung by Chow Yun-Fat and Teresa Mo

Top review

9/10

Brilliant

"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.

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Release date
- April 16, 1992 (Hong Kong)
Country of origin
- Hong Kong
Languages
- Cantonese
- English
Also known as
- Hard-Boiled
Filming locations
- Hong Kong, China
Production companies
See more company credits at IMDbPro

Budget
- $4,500,000 (estimated)

See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

Runtime
- 2h 8min
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Mono
Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1

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