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Oct 17, 2010 · Hard Boiled: No 18 best crime film of all time. John Woo, 1992. Ahmed Peerbux. Sun 17 Oct 2010 06.38 EDT. T he Killer brought Hong Kong cinema don John Woo to the attention of his American...
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Violence as poetry, rendered by a master—brilliant and passionate, John Woo’s Hard Boiled tells the story of jaded detective “Tequila” Yuen (played with controlled fury by Chow Yun-fat). Woo’s dizzying odyssey through the world of Hong Kong Triads, undercover agents, and frenzied police raids culminates unforgettably in the breathless hospital sequ...
Criterion's now out-of-print edition of Hard Boiled is presented in the aspect ratio of 1.85:1 on this dual-layered disc. Like the Criterion edition of The Killerthe image has not been enhanced for widescreen televisions. I've never been all that impressed with the image on this disc feeling that even Criterion's The Killer, contained on a single-l...
Again, like with Criterion's release of The Killer, Hard Boiledpresents a flat, compressed Cantonese mono track. Voices are flat and unnatural, sound effects are a little louder but just lack that punch, and the music is a bit of a mess. An optional English track is also included but it's not any better actually come off more obnoxious since it's a...
Supplements are actually where this release shines. It's a port of the Criterion laserdisc, carrying most of the features over. The big feature is the audio commentary from that disc featuring director John Woo, producer Terrence Chang, filmmaker Roger Avary, and critic Dave Kehr. Like most of Criterion's older commentary tracks (and some of their ...
Dec 14, 2010 · List Price: $19.97 [Buy now and save at Amazon] Review by Thomas Spurlin | posted December 14, 2010 | E-mail the Author. The Film: A brief scene in Hard-Boiled captures an undercover cop (Tony Leung) while he's patching up a wound he received in a flurry of bullets and explosions.
A review in the Los Angeles Times stated that "With Hard Boiled, John Woo shows himself to be the best director of contemporary action films anywhere." [30] The Philadelphia Inquirer spoke positively about the action scenes, noting the "epic shootouts that bookend Hard-Boiled, John Woo's blood-soaked Hong Kong gangster extravaganza, are ...
Dec 9, 2010 · Hard Boiled, a film about a cop named Tequila (Chow Yun-Fat) who grows murderously obsessed with tracking down a nasty gang of gun smugglers who offed his partner, is easily one of the slickest...
