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Lat Sau San Taam (1992)

Action | 128 minutes
3,70 511 votes

Genre: Action / Drama

Duration: 128 minuten

Alternative titles: Hard-Boiled / Hard Boiled / God of Guns / :辣手神探

Country: Hong-Kong

Directed by: John Woo

Stars: Chow Yun-fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Teresa Mo

IMDb score: 7,7 (55.033)

Releasedate: 16 April 1992

Lat Sau San Taam plot

"As a cop, he has brains, brawn, and an instinct to kill."

Inspector Yuen, aka Tequila (Chow Yun Fat) is a cop who shoots from the hips, never loads... and never misses. A tough guy with a big heart and a lot of charm. Tequila is the only one who can clean up the scum in town. But when his partner is killed in a spectacular firefight in a teahouse, Tequila decides to take the investigation into his own hands. During the investigation, he comes face to face with Tony (Tony Leung), a hit man with a deadly secret.

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Woland

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After the first scene you already know what kind of movie this will be: a hard action movie in which the corpses fly around your ears. Lat Sau San Taam (or Hard Boiled) does that in a very good and beautiful way, and the choreography of the action scenes is especially well done. Hard Boiled is about Dirty Harry-esque cop Tequila (Chow Yun Fat), who battles against bloodthirsty triads along with Tony Leung played undercover cop - both play strong, and among all the crass violence. there's still enough characterization to make the characters not look entirely made of cardboard. The bad guys like Mad Dog and Johnny Wong are also sufficiently deepened for a film like this. This is an action movie as an action movie should be: excellently filmed shootouts, brutal violence, and a great pacing where the brakes are applied every now and then and then you go full throttle again. And truckloads of corpses, of course. I've read that 307 people die on-screen in Hard Boiled, and that sounds like a plausible number. This is a John Woo of significantly higher caliber than the only decent films I've seen of him from his American period. 4.0*

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IH88

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“Everything goes in and out of style, except war.”

Delicious. The beginning of Hard Boiled immediately sets the tone for what to expect, and that long action scene in the restaurant is an unparalleled example of directing by John Woo. The man knows how to make an action movie.

Many people die and the film has many serious moments, yet Hard Boiled never loses its light-hearted and unpretentious tone. The bickering between Chow Yun-Fat and actress Teresa Mo, the ridiculous action scenes, the fuss with the babies at the end etc. The balance between serious character moments and pure entertainment and fun is perfect. This is also due to the fantastic acting of Chow, Mo and actor Tony Leung.

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wilofski

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Just reviewed and it remains a blast of an action movie!

When I rewatched, I was slightly annoyed by the slower part after the teahouse, which I also did not always immediately make sense of why who did what.

Here and there, a few minutes could have been lost on the post-production table, and then the 2+u could have been cut to a slightly more manageable length.

Well, a little further into the film everything is as clear as a log and the story is quite tight.

That whining aside: for hard, clumsy action, this is simply a winner. Endless rain of bullets, decor that explodes at the slightest, deaths by the bushes,...

All that excess also makes some parts quite funny: in the teahouse, several agents die when they break in through the front door. In the end they only cry for Tequila's dead colleague

The moral of that heroic bloodshed here is full of such contradictions, pure enjoyment!

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