Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam)

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

John Woo

Producer:

Terence Chang, Amy Chin, Linda Kuk

Release Date:

Jun 18, 1993

Runtime:

2hr 8m

Synopsis

A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.

Cast

  • Chow Yun-Fat
  • Bowie Lam
  • Philip Chan
  • Tony Leung Chiu Wai
  • Kwan Hoi-shan
  • Anthony Wong
  • Teresa Mo

Letterboxd User Reviews

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4.2

  • every stuntman in this movie deserves a goddamn medal of honor in recognition of their exemplary service to the cinematic artform

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    comrade_yui
    comrade_yui
    May 30, 2025

    Talking about this movie turns you into a 12 year old. “I liked when the motorcycle explodes”

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    Hesse
    Hesse
    Feb 27, 2026

    I am a certified action movie respecter and this may well be the best one of them I've ever seen.

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    Northernlion
    Northernlion
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    Feb 13, 2017

    "It happened so quickly... it was like a dream." Like Mann, Woo is a filmmaker of intensely gorgeous melodrama and thorny moral codes on both sides of the law. Of obsessive professionals that yearn for connection and friendship and sacrifice in the face of the new…

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    Josh Lewis
    Josh Lewis
    Nov 20, 2021

    If there was ever a movie that told you everything you needed to know in its first ten minutes, it's this one. Chow Yun-fat playing clarinet at a jazz club. Night-time neon signs spliced with news clippings of shootouts, and a teahouse full of men, money, birds, and bird…

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    reibureibu
    reibureibu
    Jul 30, 2021

    Now that’s what i call police br0tality!

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    CinemaVoid 🏴‍☠️
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    Jun 13, 2024

    I'll always remember watching this for the first time when I was a teenager, in my parents' basement on a bootleg DVD-R I bought in Toronto Chinatown. The hospital climax was so intense I could feel myself starting to sweat. I had never seen anything like it. Still…

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    Will Sloan
    Will Sloan
    May 16, 2018

    “Give guy a gun and he thinks he’s Superman. Give him two and he thinks he’s God.” Of Gods and Supermen indeed.

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    Filipe Furtado
    Filipe Furtado
    Apr 30, 2022

    John Woo really wrote, directed, and edited this and did it with such slickness you wouldn’t even know a real person was behind the camera. The perfect marriage between drama and action, and good drama at that. His set pieces have so much depth and innovation, it’s actually…

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Metacritic

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80

The stunts are wildly impressive, especially the motorbike riders who sail through the air in a ball of flame, and the gunplay is unique, although I have never found the term “balletic” quite right for something so brutal and quick. It is all so bizarre that you have to enjoy it.

Metacritic review by Peter Bradshaw
Peter Bradshaw
The Guardian
100

Plenty of entertaining action movies have been made since John Woo's 1992 Hard Boiled, but really, what's the point?

Metacritic review by Scott Tobias
Scott Tobias
The A.V. Club
80

Choreographically stunning like most of Woo’s work, especially before he headed west.

Metacritic review by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam) (1993) family-friendly?
The movie has been rated as R, meaning that Under 17 requires an adult accompaniment.
How long is Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam) (1993)?
The movie is 2hr 8min long.
What's Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam) (1993) about?
A tough-as-nails cop teams up with an undercover agent to shut down a sinister mobster and his crew.
Who's the cast of Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam) (1993)?
  • Chow Yun-Fat as Yuen (Tequila)
  • Bowie Lam as Benny
  • Philip Chan as Superintendant
  • Tony Leung Chiu Wai
  • Kwan Hoi-shan as Mr. Hoi
  • Anthony Wong as Johnny Wong
  • Teresa Mo as Teresa Chang
Who's the director behind Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam) (1993)?
John Woo directed Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam) (1993).
Who produced Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam) (1993)?
Terence Chang, Amy Chin and Linda Kuk produced Hard Boiled (Lat sau san taam) (1993).