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List Price: $14.95 | | Label: Dragon Dynasty
Salesrank: 10476
Released: July 24, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to bring down a gun smuggling ring. Features some of the most amazing and influential action set pieces in cinematic history.
Description of Hard Boiled (Two-Disc Ultimate Edition):
Masterful Hong Kong action director John Woo (The Killer, Face/Off) turns in this exciting and pyrotechnic tale of warring gangsters and shifting loyalties. Chow Yun-fat (The Replacement Killers) plays a take-no-prisoners cop on the trail of the triad, the Hong Kong Mafia, when his partner is killed during a gun battle. His guilt propels him into an all-out war against the gang, including an up-and-coming soldier in the mob (Tony Leung) who turns out to be an undercover cop. The two men must come to terms with their allegiance to the force and their loyalty to each other as they try to take down the gangsters. A stunning feast of hyperbolic action sequences (including a climactic sequence in an entire hospital taken hostage), Hard-Boiled is a rare treat for fans of the action genre, with sequences as thrilling and intense as any ever committed to film. --Robert Lane
Hard Boiled (Two-Disc Ultimate Edition) Reviews:
Thanks, great transaction. 
2009-09-18 - I bought it as a gift, but the condition is great, just as described. Fast shipping.
Intense Action
2009-09-12 - There is so much going on in this movie. You will not be bored if you like fast paced police action movies
Rather confusion! 
2009-09-02 - Not sure what to write about this movie as the plot is rather confusion. I like ChuYunFat and must say this is not his best...but not a very bad one as some of these types of martial art movies can be. I will not make a recommendation nor would I suggest not to buy either. A Toss on this one!
Arguably One Of The Best Action Movies Ever Made 
2009-03-29 - John Woo is definitely a poet when he comes to action, and he is no stranger to this exquisite action flick. Written and directed by Woo himself, Hard Boiled is perhaps one of the best action films ever made. The gun fu sequences are so elaborate and craftily choreographed that it becomes an astonishing eye candy festival.
In Hard Boiled, Chow Yung Fat plays Tequila, an over the edge super cop that will do what he can to stop crime from covering the streets. Early in the film we are introduced to another important player in the story, Alan (Tony Leung) an undercover cop working for the triads. He as well will do the impossible to bring down the organization.
The plot is not that original, it has been seen countless times in other films. Though Woo manages to take the plot and give it a couple of surprises here and there. The real magic however lies in the action sequences; which are arguably the best in any movie I have seen. Specifically a sequence in a burning hospital, which is a single handheld camera long take. This scene believe it or not lasts 2 minutes and 42 seconds. In that long take Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung alternately fight off enemies in a deliciously frenetic choreographed scene. The way they engage in emotional dialogue is superb. The scene goes through many corridors and rooms spanning two levels of the hospital, including an intervening elevator ride.
This is definitely a movie that is needed to be scene to be believed. The plot is not exactly Shakespeare...but then again we watch these type of flicks for the action than for the plot. This is a definitely must own by any action junkie. I recommend you get the Dragon Dynasty 2 disc Edition. It includes a vast amount of special features; along with a commentary by john woo himself. The Dragon Dynasty edition has been remastered in high definition, which presents a crisp and anamorphic transfer, much better than the previous edition.
MY PERSONAL RATING: 4 OUT OF 5
Loads of gunplay
2009-03-29 - Mourning the death of his partner in a spectacular teahouse shoot out, a Hong Kong cop (Chow Yun Fat) goes to war with the triad. His ally is an undercover officer (Tony Leung) who has worked his way into a position of trust in a powerful criminal syndicate.
The movie is more than a little silly. A Chinese cop named Tequila who expresses his pain by playing the saxophone (without moving his fingers, by the way) in a hole-in-the-wall jazz club? It's as if director John Woo and co-screenwriters Barry Wong and Gordon Chan decided to throw in every convention of the tough cop genre that they could glean from American movies. Soon, however, the talent of the cast, the good humor of the plot, and the exuberance of Woo's direction won me over. I wouldn't place this at the apex of action films--it's over-reliance on gunplay and explosions becomes tedious at times--but it is a very enjoyable film. I've written before that I think John Woo is overrated, but that's only because so many lionize him as a god of the cinema. He is "merely" a very talented action director who can deliver a good time at the movies--and there's nothing wrong with that.
