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This Film without a doubt is John Woo's Darkest film.A Film focused on three best friends who go to Vitenam to smuggle goods for a living. But they are caught in a middle of a war that will affect them for the rest of their lives.John Woo makes a dark tale on reality.How messed up the real world is and how your best friends aren't always loyal to you.he does brings his message well in the film and makes it a good film but there are little bumps along the way.Though Character development is on top form and the Acting is Marvelous, still the Plot is uneven at best and a bit confusing still this film is great.

The film takes place in 1968 Hong Kong.Ben(Tony Leung) is about to get married with his girlfriend and his friends Frank(Jacky Chung) and Paul(Waise Lee) are on his side into helping him get married.things are going good but Frank needs to pick up a loan to pay off the Marriage he gets the money but is jumped by a group of punks.Frank tells Ben what happened and Ben kills the Gang Leader in rage.Ben is now being chased by the police and decides to leave Hong Kong with his friends to Vitenam to smuggle goods for a living.

Once they get to Vitenam, It's all fine and Dandy until they find out how bad the country is.They witness a soldier killing A young boy for an assassination attempt and now that their supplies are destroyed in the process they go find a man name Luke(Simon Yam).Luke helps them with weapons and now Ben wants to help a singer name Sally who is a slave to A crime Boss.He wants to help Sally into leaving Vitnam and going back to Hong Kong.While trying to Escape Paul goes crazy with Greed after finding a box of gold and becoming Desperate to escape that even his friendship and loyalty start to disappear.

So far after watching this movie you Get confused and lost into the plot but it's the action and the characters that keep your interest.

As for Character You Feel You can relate to.Ben your everyday lover who has dreams for the future and wants better in life and to have children and a wife.He's a real likable character that most people can relate to.Frank is another character you can relate to as well.The loyal friend that would do anything for you no matter what.A character like that is what you call a true friend.Paul however is yes at first loyal but money and power gets to his head will anything for it if it means to kill a person or your best friend and becomes annoying during the middle of the film.

As for acting, Great.It comes to no surprise that Tony Leung gives a memorable performance as Ben.Before becoming famous in Hong Kong this film was one his early films in his career and gave a performance that lets you know Tony can act.it's a shame this film was not famous in Hong Kong maybe it could of made Tony Famous or at least win an award. Jacky Cheung Surprisiing me at least gives a great performance.I will admit never liked Jacky Cheung as an Actor he was too over-the top for me but he gives an amazing performance as the goofy lovable Frank his performance is yes a bit goofy but he gets away with it in the end when goes crazy and I'm Amaze how he did a great job pulling it off.Waise Lee however unlike Tony Leung and Jacky Cheung his performance isn't that great which is a shame given the performance he gave in A better tomorrow was great.Past the lead Simon Yam does well with his small Role it's a shame he wasn't given much because his character was interesting.

overall great film watch it see for your self.

Hard-Boiled is without a doubt one of the top 10 best action films of all times with it's slow motion, over-the-top violence and the unlimited ammo that the characters get. Though it's not John woo's best film it does lack in a couple of minor areas and unlike most of John Woo flicks his films always has subplots and twist in his films but in this film it's straight-forward and not all the characters are well-developed. but never less with it's action pack sets, A breakneck pacing, and solid acting just sit back and enjoy.

The film is about A cop name Tequila a honest, hard-boiled cop who witness his partner get killed in a teahouse shootout started by triads and wants nothing but to bring justice to avenge his' partner's death.he gets closer and closer into bringing the triads down but finds out that an undercover cop name Alan, who is working as hit-man for the triads is in his way and is afraid that Tequila might bust his cover as a triad.Eventually Tequila and Alan finally become friends and work together to bust down Johnny Wong, A psychotic triad boss who trusts Alan and starting to have his doubts about him.eventually Tequila and Alan are in middle of a gun-battle inside a hospital where Johnny has a stash of guns hidden and now Tequila and Alan must work together in order to bring Johnny down.

Overall, the plot is straight-forward and far from confusion as it starts off from the teahouse shootout, to the warehouse shootout and a climatic 30 minute hospital shootout that has some of the most insane shootout you'll ever see in a film from Tequila sliding down a stairail to shoot down a couple of guys.or in the warehouse where tequila explodes a motorcycle in mid-air to be honest the's so much stuff I don't even know it might fit in this review.

though the film lacks in character development.Tequila is your straight-forward, hard-boiled, dirty harry type of cop who only wants to bring justice but not much is known about though it would have been nice if he was a bit developed.To be honest Alan is the most developed of the two.He has regrets of what he does as a cop and a killer.the fact he's lonely and isolated from the world and has to kill people just not to blow his cover and it's people he cares about and it makes him crazy and angry inside as well.

as for the acting it's solid and enjoyable to watch as everyone does a great job of the roles there given.Chow-Yun Fat gives a solid performance as Tequila usually he would play charming, charisma characters, but he does well playing the hard-boiled cop.But when it's all said and done Tony Leung steals the show as Alan.He plays the character with a charm and always on point with the role.But what makes him stand out is his range of emotion.At one point he could smiling, two seconds later he has a mean look on his face that makes it so realistic overall I give Kudos to Tony Leung as Alan.past the leads Anthony Wong as Johnny Wong is not bad but if his character wasn't so cartoonist he would of gave a better performance.

Overall Great film I recommend to anyone out there go get it.