A lot of really entertaining and stylish action in this Hongkong film about a tough cop working together with a mysterious undercover agent. The saxophone soundtrack didn't annoy me as much as it did some, reminding me of Blade Runner at times. The dozens and dozens of people being shot to death did annoy me though. It was just way over the top, trying to distract the viewer from the fact that the plot is quite thin. Still, if there was such a thing as gun porn, Hard-Boiled would be it.

Asian Conan and "Wait, that guy's not Asian - he's WHITE!"

Blowing the door with gunpowder, that was good.

so hong kong is basically liberia but rich isn't it

Some great action sequences, but the movie was incredibly cheesy. There were about 100,000 people that died during the course of the movie, but the final 20 minutes revolved around saving ~8 babies.

This is pure stylized destruction. Woo wasn't even trying to insert coherent drama into the film and just went totally balls out. Hollywood has been trying for nearly two decades now to mimic this. Not highbrow cinema but it shows gratuitous violence so skilfully that you just have to love it.

Being John Woo, it is extraordinarily unrealistic, absolutely ridiculous and unbelievable, at times ridiculously over the top, and at all times, absolutely visceral and gripping. The action scenes are intensely gorgeous, dripping with style and cinematographic precision. This is Woo at his best, and the duo of Fat and Leung is an incredibly charismatic pair of performances that generate much sympathy, despite being simple. Relentlessly entertaining, brutally stylized, the perfect action film.

Chow Yun Fat with dual pistols, John Woo Directing; a classic in the stylized action genre.

Any movie which has Tony Leung killing over 50 people is great by me.

Stylish, tough as nails action flick with Chow Yun-Fat at the helm. Great action film from John Woo.

Aged very bad (2009).

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

A lot of really entertaining and stylish action in this Hongkong film about a tough cop working together with a mysterious undercover agent. The saxophone soundtrack didn't annoy me as much as it did some, reminding me of Blade Runner at times. The dozens and dozens of people being shot to death did annoy me though. It was just way over the top, trying to distract the viewer from the fact that the plot is quite thin. Still, if there was such a thing as gun porn, Hard-Boiled would be it.

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.

Good, but they could have used a few more gunfights.

One of the best action films ever made.

John Woo can blow the shit out of any set.