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Lat sau san taam [Hard Boiled]
Lat sau san taam [Hard Boiled]
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zingy
College Boy Z
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:40 pm Posts: 36662
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 Lat sau san taam [Hard Boiled]
Hard Boiled Quote: Hard Boiled (traditional Chinese: 辣手神探; pinyin: Làshǒu shéntàn) is a 1992 Hong Kong action film directed by John Woo. The film stars Chow Yun-fat as Inspector "Tequila" Yuen, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Tony, an undercover cop, and Anthony Wong as Johnny Wong, a leader of criminal triads. The film features Tequila, whose partner (Bowie Lam) is killed in a tea house gunfight with a small army of gangsters. One of the mob's high-ranking assassins is the undercover cop Tony, who must team up with Tequila for their common pursuit of taking down Wong's crime syndicate. The film leads up to a climax in a hospital, where the two must rescue innocent civilians and newborn babies from the maternity ward while fighting off dozens of mob hitmen.
Hard Boiled is John Woo's last Hong Kong film to date. After making films that featured gangsters in the lead role, Woo wanted to make a Dirty Harry styled film to glamorize the role of a police officer. After the death of screenwriter Barry Wong, the script of the film went through many changes while still filming. New characters such as Mad Dog and Mr. Woo were introduced while the original idea of a baby poisoning psychopath were cut from the script.
The film was released in Hong Kong in 1992 to generally positive audience reception, but it was not as popular as Woo's previous action films, such as A Better Tomorrow and The Killer. Reception from western critics was much more positive, with many critics proclaiming its action scenes to be some of the best ever filmed. In 2007, a video game sequel to Hard Boiled titled Stranglehold was released, which is in the process of being made into a film.
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:17 pm |
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Algren
now we know
Joined: Tue Oct 19, 2004 9:31 pm Posts: 68355
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Hard Boiled - B
Brilliant actioner. I dont think this movie was made for any other reason other than toblow things up and shoot people in the head, it is a brilliant explosive actioner, directed by the man himself, John Woo. :wink: MUST SEE!
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Tue Jan 25, 2005 7:30 pm |
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FILMO
The Original
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:19 am Posts: 9808 Location: Suisse
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9/10.Story is just ok(Bullet in the Head or The Killer had better storys). But the Action... uiuiuiuiui \:D/
Thats what I call police brutality
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Wed Mar 30, 2005 6:00 am |
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Bell
Indiana Jones IV
Joined: Tue Jan 18, 2005 12:02 am Posts: 1906 Location: Middle Of Nowhere
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i had 3 words for this movie. CLASSIC, COOL and STYLISH definetely a must see movie. A+
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Riggs
We had our time together
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:36 am Posts: 13299 Location: Vienna
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Some really good action scenes and Chow Yun Fat was just cool but it sure didn't blow me away. B
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xiayun
Extraordinary
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 3:41 pm Posts: 25109 Location: San Mateo, CA
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 Re: Hard Boiled
Arguably John Woo's best film. I personally prefer The Killer a little more, but either way, Woo directed gun actions like nobody else.
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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 Re: Lat sau san taam [Hard Boiled]
It's sorta silly and cheesy, but Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung are great and the final shootout (staged like a first-person shooter, complete with an extended tracking sequence) is all kinds of awesome.
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