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Hard Boiled [Sub: Eng]
A tough-as-nails cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers teams up with an undercover agent for their common pursuit of taking down the crime syndicate.

















4 August 1952, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

21 October 1951, Taipei, Taiwan



1925, China

28 July 1960, Hong Kong, China


27 June 1962, Hong Kong

4 September 1965, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, Hong Kong





2 September 1961, Hong Kong

5 November 1959, Hong Kong

18 May 1955, Lamma Island, Hong Kong

25 January 1945, Hong Kong
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April 29, 2009
Accomplishes a lot within its time frame, and it's an accomplishment only Woo is capable of.
March 01, 2007
The kinetic action set pieces of Hard-Boiled are so tightly-wound, so intense, that they will either exhilarate or scare off action fans bred on the relatively lame offerings provided by major Hollywood studios.
March 29, 2011
A striking yet overlong actioner...
August 09, 2005
John Woo's poetically violent action sequences are his trademark, and Hard-Boiled features three stunning examples.
December 11, 2010
A moody, tense, moving and action-packed crime drama -- one of Woo's very best.
March 01, 2007
Hard Boiled takes Woo's signature gunplay to even more hyperbolic extremes than he had previously achieved.
June 24, 2006
A supercharged thriller.
August 16, 2007
The action sequences here are less overtly beautiful than in his previous films, but they're far more complex and explosive.
January 27, 2011
The film is a life-support system for its third act.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Woo does, in fact, seem to be a very brisk, talented director with a gift for the flashy effect and the bizarre confrontation.
March 01, 2007
Choreographically stunning like most of Woo's work, especially before he headed West.
June 08, 2011
Cool, stylish, vastly entertaining Hong Kong actioner from John Woo, in top form.