Hard Boiled - Definition and Overview

Hard Boiled (辣手神探; pinyin: Làshǒu shéntàn), released in 1992 is John Woo's last Hong Kong action film before going to the United States to do film-making.

It contains mind-boggling mayhem from start to finish and contains a very long action set-piece at the end of the film.

It has the most on-screen deaths of any film in cinematic history: over 250.

Cast includes

• Chow Yun-Fat
• Tony Leung Chiu Wai
• Teresa Mo
• Philip Chan
• Philip Kwok
• Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
• Bowie Lam
• Bobbie Au-Yeung
• Shui Ting Ng
• Hoi-Shan Kwan
• Wei Tung

See also

• Heroic bloodshed
• Cinema of China

External links

• Hard Boiled (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104684/) at the Internet Movie Database