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Hard Boiled

Chow Yun-Fat

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Teresa Mo Shun-Kwan

Philip Chan

Phillip Kwok

Anthony Wong Chau-Sang

Kwan Hoi-San

Stephen Tung Wai

Bowie Lam

Bobby Au-yeung Chun Wah

Keith Ng Shui-Ting

Lau Kong

Michael Dinga

Perrie Lai Hoi-San

Kenny Wong Tak-Ban

Lo Meng

Lam Kai-Wing

John Woo

Jun Kunimura

Lee Yiu-King

Benny Lam

Wai-Sun Lam

Gilbert Lam Wai-San

Jameson Lam Wa-Fan

Jack Wong

Paco Yick Tin-Hung

Benny Lam Diy-Kuen

Jacky Cheung Chun-Hung

Derek Kwok Jing-Hung

Raymond Tsang Chau-Ming

Buffalo Tang Tai-Wo

Barry Wong Ping-Yiu

Gordon Chan

Terence Chang

Linda Kuk Mei-Lai

Michael Gibbs

Ah Chik

Hai Kit-Wai

David Wu

Amy Chin Siu-Wai

Kwok Yuet-Chuen

James Leung Wah-Sing

Cheng Wai-Fong

Patrick Leung Pak-Kin

Sylvia Liu Jing-Yi

Max Rose

Brian Schwegmann

Ronny Ching Siu-Lung

Arthur Wai Kit Lau

Bruce Law

Bruce Law Lai-Yin

Jackie Yeung

Kim-Kit Wai

Bruce Yu

Horace Wong Wing-Hang

Tai Chun-Ching

Joel Chong Kwok-Wing

Janet Chun Siu-Chun

James Wong Jim

Filipe Manuel Neto

**Who wants to see a free bloodbath before breakfast today?**

Hong Kong has a long history of good action cinema, but this movie didn't seem that good and interesting to me. Many people love it, they say it is wonderful, and I accept that very well, I think that everyone has their own tastes, but the truth is that the film did not work for me. Sounds like an excuse for an action movie.

John Woo is a director I don't know very well. I liked “The Killer” and, therefore, I decided to see this film: it is considered, by many people, one of the director's best. They're not even alike. It is noted that it is the same director, there is a certain style and look, and some shooting options, which are in both films, but we lack a good script, a convincing story. From the middle, sensibly, the director's brutality and bloodlust lose the brake: in minutes, we watch in the armchair what we can only classify as a gratuitous bloodbath (false, obviously).

I would like to talk a little about the actors, but I felt that none of them has the time, space and material to represent a character properly. They are there to kill or die, according to the wishes and desires of the Machiavellian Woo, who abuses visual effects, brutality, the toughest and most soulless action that we can see on a cinema screen. Loaded with graphic effects that accompany a cinematography worthy of an industrial rock music video, the film takes us from massacre to massacre and, before halfway through, we already begin to doubt that there is a live cast. In truth, and to be fair, the film also has the grace of being quite immersive, be it for the good use of sound effects, be it for its magnificently adequate soundtrack, be it for the fast and visceral filming. We are part of that, we are there. And that makes it even harder to bear, depending on how insensitive you can be.

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Chow Yun-Fat

Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Teresa Mo Shun-Kwan

Philip Chan

Phillip Kwok

Anthony Wong Chau-Sang

Kwan Hoi-San

Stephen Tung Wai

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Bobby Au-yeung Chun Wah

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