Classic John Woo! If you are looking for a good action flick, look no further. This was the first time I'd seen Chow Yun-Fat as well and I was very impressed. Hard Boiled is gun ballet at it's best with the master at the helm.

Yeah amazing gun fighting action, but I didn't like the low budget look, editing, and music, the below average acting, the indifferent attitude towards massive amounts of innocent people dying, and the bad dialogue. A movie like Running Scared, for example, doesn't have as much action but is superior in every other respect, gets complaints and mixed reviews, yet all the flaws in this movie are forgiven. Something is wrong here.

Eat your heart out The Matrix, this just blows away anything you ever tried to achieve. The hospital sequence is AMAZING! There's this tracking shot that blows away everything I've ever seen in an action flix. John Woo I salute you!

This must be what Michael Davis had in mind when he made Shoot 'em Up. Chow Yun-Fat is tough as a nail.

A gritty, over the top action movie with one of the best shootouts ever filmed.

John Woo can blow the shit out of any set.

Woo's attention to style, detail and brilliant camera work engage the action in a manner unmatched. At times you feel like an omnipotent being, observing the destruction with your own will, from every angle, engulfed and mesmerized by the horror, and ironically, the sheer beauty of its magnitude. This is like a symphony of terror and carnage, executed with passion, flair and finesse. A must see.

The number one reason I recommend this movie to people is the insane amount of innocent bystanders that get shot. I'm talking Grand Theft Auto levels of civilian kills.

Hardly John Woo's best but the action scenes last a while before becoming mind-grindingly boring.

The best action movie ever, hands down. This is The Standard by which all other action movies should be judged. #5 in my all time top 10.

It has lots of silly moments, phony quotes, and lots of cliches from regular action flicks. But the hospital scene is very nice.

"A master stylist, Woo is similarly brilliant at examining the moral and social hierarchies of his patriarchal crime worlds." - Ed Gonzalez

The culmination of John Woo's short-lived Hong Kong career, which seems to lack 'The Killer's refined touch at first, but as the story moves forward and a myriad of great characters are introduced, it becomes one heck of a ride. Yun-Fat and Leung are a badass duo and the 3rd act is beyond words. The only qualm I have about this film is that no one seems to reload their guns...ever, on top of unloading them eratically. Screw it, see it and then see it again, with all of your hard-boiled friends.

It's John Woo, so let's get the obvious out of the way: the action scenes are magnificently choreographed orgies of blood and bullets, gleefully over the top. Unfortunately, the plot surrounding them is a clichéd cop story, chock full of horrible dialogue and stock characters. Fun to watch once, but really has nothing to offer in the long run. Also: terrible music.

Very Great

The mother of all action movies: The coolness of Chow Yun Fat, the gunfights with slow motion, the babies tossed like footballs, the bystanders used as human shields!

Some of the greatest action scenes of all time.

I'm not entirely sure there was a story or plot of any form. Who cares.

Great action movie, highly entertaining.

Hard Boiled. Also known as 'Chow Yun-Fat Saves Hundreds of Babies from Premature Hearing Loss while Sliding on Gurneys to Dodge Bullets in a Mob Hospital - The Movie'. The plot can best be summed up with a quote from our pock-faced villain, Johnny Wong: 'There's no choice. The innocent must die.' Cue unused Caribbean steel drum tracks from Commando and start firing!