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Title: Hard Boiled (1992)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Yun-Fat Chow | ... | Insp. 'Tequila' Yuen | |
| Tony Chiu-Wai Leung | ... | Alan (as Tony Leung) | |
| Teresa Mo | ... | Teresa Chang | |
| Philip Chan | ... | Supt. Pang | |
| Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok | ... | Mad Dog (as Kwok Chun-Feng) | |
| Anthony Chau-Sang Wong | ... | Johnny Wong (as Anthony Wong) | |
| Hoi-San Kwan | ... | Mr. Hoi (Guest star) (as Kwan Hoi Sang) | |
| Wei Tung | ... | Foxy (Guest star) (as Tung Wai) | |
| Bowie Lam | ... | Ah Lung / Benny | |
| Meng Lo | ... | Lonny (as Johnson Law) | |
| Bobbie Au-Yeung | ... | Lionheart (as Bobby Au Yeung) | |
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Shui Ting Ng | ... | Ah Chung (as Ng Shui-Tung) |
| Kong Lau | ... | Hospital Director | |
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Wai-Sun Lam | ... | Hitman 1 |
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Benny Lam | ... | Hitman 2 |
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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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Country:
Hong KongRelease Date:
16 April 1992 (Hong Kong) See more »Also Known As:
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$4,500,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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As for the reasoning of having the baby urinate on Tequila to save him, John Woo says that "Anytime I hold a baby, they always seem to pee on me." See more »Goofs
Location and the position of Benny's (Tequila's partner) body in the Teahouse. When he was shot, he was inside the kitchen with the door entering the kitchen to his left. Yet after Tequila comes to his side after the shoot out, Benny is outside the kitchen on the floor in the dining area. That would mean that as he was being shot, his body would have to have had to make a left turn to get back out side the kitchen even though he was seen being shot and falling within the kitchen. See more »Alternate Versions
Three uncut German DVDs were released. Two Versions in boxes with the second part "Hard Boiled II" and one version with only the first part. See more »Contribute to This Page
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Hard Boiled is my number 1 favorite Hong Kong John Woo action film that I love to death! I absolutely love this movie to death I love it. It is one of my personal favorite movies. Hard Boiled (1992) is literally John Woo's best Hong Kong action film ever made of all time! The movie is a hard-core action, I have ever seen. It is actually the best Hong Kong action film for me. It belongs right up there with Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) the best action classic film of all time. Chow Yun-Fat, toothpick in mouth, a gun in each hand. That's all of the plot you need to know. In fact, this is THE best pure action epic ever filmed. This is my film, my personal favorite Hong Kong action film of all time.
"Give the guy a gun and he's superman, give him two and he's God."
Not even Jackie Chan can mess with this film or beat it. The only Jackie Chan film that is close to this film is Police Story. In my opinion Hard Boiled is John Woo's best HK action movie from the 90's and a true masterpiece along with Hard Target (1993) his first American movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme in the main role.
Chow Yun-Fat stars as Tequila, a cop hell-bent on bringing down the gun smugglers responsible for his partner's death. He teams up with an undercover cop Tony Leung whose secret identity as a Triad hit man hangs on thread.
Hard Boiled is my favorite John Woo's HK action movies. This action movie with twists around, The Hong Kong Cinema Hard Boiled has everything in it, no CGI, the stunts are real, the explosions are bigger and the plot of the film is amazing you can get in to the story without guessing what is going to happened and what the plot is about. The warehouse scenes and a shooting a motorcycles in an explosions from Tequila is my favorite scenes in the movie. Sometimes to me it come for this movie is similar to Miami Vice when Tony Leung was undercover cop on a boat he remind me on Sonny Crockett, but the shout outs in this film are awesome. Just Miami Vice TV series where more about drug cartels, this is arms dealer weapons about triads.
The stunts are real and very dangerous. There was a hospital siege which was actually Die Hard in a hospital. Hard Boiled is a classic action film from Hong Kong, they don't make movies like this anymore. Phillip Chan is also in this film which I forgot to mention in my review Philip Chan was also in Van Damme's Bloodsport. You have a great action sequences in the tea house, where the guns are hitting in the bird cage, he shoots a dozen guys and saves a baby, the hospital sequences are real. The first time I saw this film I had no idea that how great film it is, the greatest movie of all time in the cinema. John Woo is also as a bartender in this film. The hospital sequences for me is real, the action is real. The best Chow Yun-Fat and John Woo movie ever made.
Hard Boiled is a 1992 Hong Kong action film written by Barry Wong and directed by John Woo. It stars Chow Yun-fat as Inspector "Tequila" Yuen, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai
10/10 I love this movie to death it is my favorite Hong Kong Action film and it is my second favorite film that I love. It is also my number 2 favorite action film.