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Hard Boiled
18 Feature

DVD Information

Run time: 2 hours 34 minutes
Rental release: 24 Apr 2000
Main languages: Cantonese, Chinese
Dubbed: English
Subtitles: English
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  • Hard Boiled Hardcore

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By Nigel Hannah from Ashby De La Zouch , 23 Jan 2005

    [Highly rated reviewer]

    Want to see one of the greatest action films of all tme? Then watch this. Woo's greatest film. Ok its getting on a bit now, but the action is just on another level to any you have seen before. It takes the no reload rule to a new level. So yes its completely ott but just enjoy! Even after the PUB! if you need to. Duh! Hint. Its the best time to.

    There is a lightly better transfer of it from Tartan films i think. Its not the best but apperently its the best we'll get.
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  • this could be the best action film ever

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By ironmaiden (5 reviews) , 06 Dec 2012
    if you are reading this then you have come across a review of one of the most best films to ever grace planet earth, if you liike action films and you have never seen this movie where have you been for the last 20 years,the body count is the most ive seen in a film, if you wont watch it because its got subtitles well that's your loss for being to lazy too read, there are 2 versions of the film so watch the English one,once again the Chinese show the Americans how to make films,
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  • too much

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By a customer , 19 Jul 2012
    I love action movies but this had so much action and subtitles, I didn't know where to look. Sorry but 15 minutes was my limit to watch it too.
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  • Terrible DVD

    Rated - 1.0 star  
    By exidor (5 reviews) from UK , 03 Mar 2012
    It's a great film but the disc I received was letterboxed and only had the awful English dub and no options for other languages or subtitles. I couldn't watch more than 10 minutes.
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  • OMG I'd forgotten about Miami Vice

    Rated - 3.5 stars  
    By a customer , 27 Jan 2012

    THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS Show review anywayHide

    While this is definitely super cool it is also completely bonkers, surprisingly boring, and way too influenced by Miami Vice.

    There is no plot or script to speak of but a lot of people get shot. They're not just shootings either but slo mo, while crashing a motorcycle, while jumping through a window, while holding a baby, and most importantly while wearing really baggy pastel suits and sunglasses. One of the characters lives on a yacht for wotsits sake.

    Also rather disturbing and related to the baggy suit issue is that everyone looks so young. Tony Leung is a big heart-throb of mine but he looks like a little kid dressing up in his dad's clothes.

    Despite all this it is still a fantastic action movie that well deserves its place in the cannon.
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  • Super shoot-em-up

    Rated - 5.0 stars  
    By IanStewart (129 reviews) from Melton Mowbray , 25 Apr 2011
    I don't understand those reviews that say 'I stopped viewing after 15 minutes'! This film does exactly what it says on the tin: it's an out-and-out shoot-up movie. In fact I'd guess that John Woo set out to make the most out-and-out shoot-up movie ever made, and if so, he succeeded. There's just enough story, and just enough characterisation, to keep it just about realistic. So you can simply sit back and enjoy the fireworks, as we did, for the film's two-hours-plus.
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