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863:. The hospital scenes took 40 days to shoot. The hospital segment's location was chosen since they wanted to have an atypical location where gangs would hide their weapons. While filming in the hospital, the windows were covered with blast shields to give the appearance of night time, which allowed the crew to film at any time during the day. The cast and crew stayed in the hospital for days, often losing track of time. After long hours of filming in the hospital, the crew became exhausted. This prompted the direction of one of the climax's action scenes, a lengthy shootout through the hospital's halls, to be a five-minute 592:
who escapes. Enraged, Mad Dog tries to kill Wong, but is gunned down when his pistol runs out of ammunition. Alan and Tequila kill the remaining gangsters and confront Wong, but he detonates bombs in the armory, setting the hospital ablaze and forcing Tequila to flee with the baby while Alan goes after Wong. As the hospital explodes, Wong drags Alan outside at gunpoint and forces Tequila to humiliate himself. Using this as a distraction, Alan grabs Wong's pistol and shoots himself in the chest, surprising Wong enough for Tequila to fatally shoot Wong in the head, before collapsing.
38: 831: 867:, so as to shorten the time needed to film. To complete this, during a brief 20-second scene in the middle of the take inside an elevator, the crew quickly changed the set props and rigged the explosions and practical effects in time for the next scene to continue. While filming the hospital sequence, Tony Leung was injured when glass fragments went into his eyes, and he was hospitalized before returning after a week-long rest. Woo changed the ending of 3717: 604: 3741: 843:
Chow Yun-fat felt his character was not very deep in comparison to Leung's character of Alan. To develop his character more, Chow asked John Woo to insert a mentor character in the film, which Woo himself would play; Chow felt that having Woo in this role would make Woo not cut out these scenes. Philip Kwok's role of Mad Dog was not in the script and was created on the set. Kwok first worked with Woo on his film
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gave the film three and a half stars, stating that "Mayhem has never looked better than in John Woo's latest high-caliber cops-and-robbers thriller, even if the plot is a bit slippery" and that John Woo "has blasted the action genre onto a whole new level. His shootouts are a ballet; his firebombings
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The pair eventually confront Mad Dog again. While Tequila leaves to assist Chang and rescue one last baby, Alan and Mad Dog engage in a tense duel before ending up between a group of crippled patients. They offer the group safe passage, but Wong arrives and guns them down in an attempt to kill Alan,
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sequence in the film was shot before the script was written. The crew found that the teahouse was going to be torn down and decided to film a scene there. Woo saw the staircase in the teahouse, and thought about a scene where a character would come shooting down gun smugglers while sliding down the
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The script of the film went through several changes during filming. Due to the length of the film, scenes from a side-story involving the relationship between the characters Tequila and Teresa Chang were cut. Another cut scene included Tequila playing clarinet over Benny's grave. With these cuts,
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Alan placed in Foxy's chest pocket earlier saves his life. Foxy finds Tequila at a jazz bar and informs him that Wong's armory is hidden in a vault beneath a nearby hospital. As Tequila takes Foxy to the hospital, Wong discovers that Foxy is alive and sends Alan to kill him, while also discreetly
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Meanwhile, Alan, an assassin working for Triad boss "Uncle" Hoi, murders one of Hoi's subordinates who had double-crossed them for a rival syndicate led by upstart Johnny Wong. Wong, who is looking to usurp the old Triad bosses through his control of the illicit arms trade, is impressed by Alan's
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breaks out; the gangsters are defeated, but several police officers and civilians are wounded and Benny is killed. As revenge, Tequila executes the gangster who killed Benny rather than arrest him. He is reprimanded by Chief Superintendent Pang, who needed the executed gangster as a key witness.
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Alan and Tequila discover Wong's vault, where they briefly skirmish with Mad Dog. As Pang, officer Teresa Chang, and other inspectors evacuate the hospital, Wong and his men attempt to gain leverage by taking the staff and patients hostage while indiscriminately shooting fleeing patients and
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Tequila tracks Alan to his sailboat and deduces he is undercover, but they are ambushed by the remnants of Hoi's gang. The pair fight off the attackers and Tequila flees just before Wong arrives, allowing Alan to keep his cover. Wong realizes that one of his lieutenants, Foxy, is a police
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on a list of the "100 Best Movies of the Past 10 Decades", stating that Woo's "artistry lies in the way he shapes a sequence for maximum kinetic effect, creating mosaics of sound and action that leave you feeling exhilarated rather than beaten up." Ed Gonzalez of
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police detective film. While creating this character, Woo was inspired by a police officer who was a strong-willed and tough member of the police force, as well as being an avid drummer. This led to Woo having Tequila's character be a musician as well as a cop.
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found it difficult to follow both the action scenes and the subtitles at the same time, but stated that "Mr. Woo does, in fact, seem to be a very brisk, talented director with a gift for the flashy effect and the bizarre confrontation." A review in the
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responding police officers, irritating Mad Dog with his callousness. Alan and Tequila team up to rescue the hostages and battle Wong's men; meanwhile, Pang evacuates the lobby and takes command at the police perimeter, while Chang and the
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is a powerful thriller that hits hard in more ways than one." Film scholar Andy Klein wrote that the film is "almost a distillation of post-1986 work. Even if the plot is full of holes, and the emotional tug isn't quite as strong as in
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as Foxy: Johnny's lieutenant who secretly informs on his gang to Tequila. After he is exposed as a traitor, Alan intervenes to save his life. Foxy is later killed by Mad Dog at the hospital in which the final shoot-out takes
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was brought in to write a new story about Tony Leung's character being an undercover police officer. After writing the first part of the script, Wong went on a vacation Germany, where he died, leaving the script unfinished.
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Before production started, Woo told his actors that he was not going to make the film as stylish as his previous films, but to have it be more of an "edgy thriller". The role of Teresa Chang was originally made for actress
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as Teresa Chang: A fellow police officer who is the girlfriend of Tequila. She helps to decode the secret code songs that are sent to the police by Alan written on cards attached to bouquets that he has delivered to
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spoke positively about the action scenes, noting the "epic shootouts that bookend Hard-Boiled, John Woo's blood-soaked Hong Kong gangster extravaganza, are wondrously staged, brilliantly photographed tableaux." The
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gives it a score of 92%, with an average rating of 7.8 out of 10, based on 71 reviews. The website's "Critic's Consensus" for the film reads, "Boasting impactful action as well as surprising emotional resonance,
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as "Uncle" Hoi: Alan's boss, an aging gangster who turns down an opportunity to leave Hong Kong as he considers it to be irresponsible. Alan is forced to kill him after Johnny takes control of his gun warehouse.
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as Supt. Pang: Tequila's superior. Prior to the film, Chan was a police officer for about fifteen years. He felt that certain scenes in the film were very familiar as they were similar to real police work.
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as Johnny Wong: A scheming triad boss who plans to seize complete control of Hong Kong's gangs using the earnings from his gun smuggling business, most of which are stored in the basement of a hospital.
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Alan is revealed to have survived the ordeal. To protect Alan from the Triads, Pang and Tequila destroy Alan's personnel file and declare him dead, allowing him to leave Hong Kong to start a new life.
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in the domestic box office. Reception from Western critics was much more positive, with many critics and film scholars describing its action scenes as being among the best ever filmed. In 2007, a
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are poetry. And while he lets the body count get away from him, he constantly fascinates, through a combination of chaos and an excruciating control over what we're allowed to see."
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as Tea-House Gunman: A gun smuggler who kills Benny Mak at the teahouse and is subsequently gunned down by a vengeful Tequila. Credited as Y Yonemura in the film's opening credits
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to Woo's American films, stating that his Hong Kong films are "not as slick as his later films, more inventive and stylised and great early performances from Fat and Leung".
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every time he kills someone, a trait which was influenced by Woo's daughter when he saw her making them. Alan is shown as living alone on a yacht and considers himself to be
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sending Mad Dog to monitor Alan. At the hospital, Alan confronts Tequila, demanding to know the whereabouts of the vault; while the two are distracted, Mad Dog kills Foxy.
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had their voices dubbed by their own actors to save money. Woo stated this was convenient as he did not have to worry about setting up boom mics and other sound elements.
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proclaimed the film as "arguably Woo's masterpiece, it is an action film to end all action films, an experience so deliriously cinematic it makes
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The scenes in the hospital maternity ward and the warehouse were shot at a studio called "The Coca-Cola Factory", named for its former use as a
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as Benny Mak: Tequila's long-time partner and fellow jazz musician. He dies in the opening shootout after accidentally killing a civilian.
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took 123 days to shoot in 1991. Although Woo told his cast that the film would be more gritty and not as stylish as his previous films,
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was released on 16 April 1992 in Hong Kong. The film grossed HK$ 19,711,048 which was not as strong of a box office reception as Woo's
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was released in Hong Kong in 1992 to generally positive audience reception. Though it was not as commercially successful as Woo's
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as a bartender who would give Chow Yun-fat's character advice. Woo's character was developed after filming had already started.
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skill and attempts to recruit him. Alan reluctantly accepts the offer, and Wong brings Alan to a raid on Hoi's warehouse as an
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gave the film the highest rating of four stars, proclaiming it to be one of Woo's best films. The British film magazine
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The film was originally developed in 1990. After creating films which focused on the lives of gangsters, director
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After a police funeral, Pang burns the personnel file of another smuggler Tequila killed, revealing him to be an
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After the film's initial release, critical reception continues to be positive; the review-aggregation website
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In 1991, when I had just started shooting Hard Boiled, all of a sudden, I got a phone call from Oliver Stone.
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after many members of the crew of the film felt that Leung's character should survive at the film's end.
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placed the film at number 70 in their list of "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010. In 2023,
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banister. The teahouse sequence was shot in around a week's time and was choreographed by Woo and
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as Bartender: A former cop who runs the jazz bar where Tequila performs and offers him advice.
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ranked the character of Tequila as 33rd in their "The 100 Greatest Movie Characters" poll.
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gave the film four stars out of five, calling it "Infinitely more exciting than a dozen
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to change its nomination rules to allow for multiple leading roles from the same film.
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as Alan: An undercover cop posing as a high-ranking triad assassin. He makes an
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while they are making a deal. When a rival gang ambushes the deal, a fierce
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as Mad Dog: A skilled gunfighter and gang enforcer working for Johnny Wong.
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more because it mixed the action with the art. But movie lovers liked
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wanted to make a film that glorified the police instead. Woo admired
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This article is about the Hong Kong action film. For other uses, see
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At the end of 1991 I was making my last Hong Kong film, Hard Boiled.
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on 10 July 1998. A second Region 1 DVD of the film was released by
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Woo is a fan of jazz music and wanted a jazz-style soundtrack for
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received a wide release in the United Kingdom on 8 October 1993.
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as Lionheart: An officer who works under Tequila's supervision.
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killing to Tequila and warns him to stay away from the case.
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inspectors "Tequila" Yuen and Benny Mak surveil a group of
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Partner in Crime: An Interview With Producer Terence Chang
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Mad Dog Bites Again: An Interview With actor Philip Kwok
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A Baptism Of Fire: An Interview With Director John Woo
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Hard boiled (disambiguation)
Film poster illustrates the character Tequila holding a shotgun in one hand, and a newborn baby under his other arm. The background depicts the underground hospital area seen in the film. Text at the bottom of the poster reveals the production credits.
John Woo
Gordon Chan
Barry Wong
Linda Kuk
Terence Chang
Chow Yun-fat
Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Teresa Mo
Philip Chan
Philip Kwok
Anthony Wong
David Wu
Michael Gibbs
Golden Princess Film Production
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Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization
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thriller film
John Woo
Gordon Chan

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