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Hard Boiled (; literally: Hot-Handed God of Cops) is a 1992 action film by director John Woo. It is the last film Woo directed in his native Hong Kong before relocating to Hollywood.

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It is considered one of the best and perhaps definitive heroic bloodshed movies of all time, if only for the bloodshed. It increased John Woo's and Chow Yun-Fat's popularity outside Hong Kong, and gained a unique cult status among genre fans worldwide, though critically viewed "it lacks the emotional resonance of The Killer or the powerful nihilism of Bullet in the Head." (Ross Chen *) What starts off as a stylish though mundane "cop-undercover cop duo versus triads" flick turns out to be a two-hour long, 230 body count action extravaganza, built around three major action setpieces: the opening teahouse shootout, the warehouse betrayal in the middle and the final thirty-minute hospital shootout that ends the film.

A descriptive quote with reference to the title (God of Cops) sees Chow Yun-Fat yet again in the role of a sort of god, which has by now become a cliché: "Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God".

Hard Boiled has a famous action shot in the burning hospital near the end of the movie. It is a single handheld camera shot lasting 2 minutes and 42 seconds that follows the characters of Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung as they alternately fight off enemies in frenetically choreographed action and engage in emotional dialogue, through many corridors and rooms spanning two levels of the hospital, as well as the intervening elevator ride. On the Criterion DVD, an entire chapter (appropriately titled Two minutes, forty-two seconds) is devoted to this single shot.

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Just had 2 hard boiled eggs and tau huey for breakie! :D
zaxecandy (Zaxe Jrain T) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:36:47 -0000
Just had 2 hard boiled eggs and tau huey for breakie! :D
miike's CZII. relentlessly fisty like woo's hard boiled is relentlessly shooty. manages to make some kind of sense by being nonsense. maybe.
yobgol (logboy) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:36:35 -0000
miike's CZII. relentlessly fisty like woo's hard boiled is relentlessly shooty. manages to make some kind of sense by being nonsense. maybe.
@leahondemand I totally hard boiled eggs today too! Egg salad! Woo!!
so_kaits_like (Kaitlin Brown) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:23:44 -0000
@leahondemand I totally hard boiled eggs today too! Egg salad! Woo!!
Thank you!! RT @mylastbite: (CUTE!) Ninja (nori-wrapped hard-boiled egg) In Fruit Bento! http://tinyurl.com/y9yt6c2 by @sweetiepiegirly
sweetiepiegirly (sherimiya) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 21:21:27 -0000
Thank you!! RT @mylastbite: (CUTE!) Ninja (nori-wrapped hard-boiled egg) In Fruit Bento! http://tinyurl.com/y9yt6c2 by @sweetiepiegirly

 
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