Hard Boiled
Overview
 
Hard Boiled is a 1992
Hong Kong films of 1992
A list of films produced in Hong Kong in 1992:.-1992:-External links:* * Hong Kong films of 1992 at...

 Hong Kong action film
Hong Kong action cinema
Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame. It combines elements from the action film, as codified by Hollywood, with Chinese storytelling and aesthetic traditions, to create a culturally distinctive form that nevertheless has a wide transcultural...

 directed by John Woo
John Woo
John Woo Yu-Sen SBS is a Hong Kong-based film director and producer. Recognized for his stylised films of highly choreographed action sequences, Mexican standoffs, and use of slow-motion, Woo has directed several notable Hong Kong action films, among them, A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Hard...

. The film stars Chow Yun-fat
Chow Yun-Fat
Chow Yun-fat, SBS is an actor from Hong Kong. He is best known in Asia for his collaboration with filmmaker John Woo in heroic bloodshed genre films A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, and Hard Boiled; and to the West for his role as Li Mu-bai in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon...

 as Inspector "Tequila" Yuen
Tequila Yuen
Inspector "Tequila" Yuen is a fictional character who appears in the 1992 film Hard Boiled and the 2007 video game Stranglehold, played and voiced by Chow Yun-fat. He is an inspector with the Hong Kong Police Force and is extremely skilled with fire arms. He is also a heavy drinker, which led to...

, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Tony, an undercover cop, and Anthony Wong
Anthony Wong Chau Sang
Anthony Wong Chau-sang is a Hong Kong Film Award-winning Hong Kong actor, screenwriter and film director. He is regarded as one of the most notable actors in Hong Kong.-Biography:...

 as Johnny Wong, a leader of criminal triads. The film features Tequila, whose partner (Bowie Lam) is killed in a tea house gunfight with a small army of gangsters. One of the mob's high-ranking assassins is the undercover cop Tony, who must team up with Tequila for their common pursuit of taking down Wong's crime syndicate.
Quotations

[After his pants are set on fire and a baby pisses down his leg] You saved the day there, you little pisspot. Thanks a lot.

A cop dies and I make a tune for him.

Roses are so obvious. Anyone would suspect them.

Guy goes through hell for a girl but she doesn't realize it.

[after shooting a guy while carrying a baby, covering the babies eyes] Woops, X-rated action

To you I'm a thief, to my mother, a son, to the triads I'm a hero.

You know I hated making [paper] cranes. I make one each time I kill someone. How about it, should I make you one?

So busy being a gangster, I don't know which me is real.

[in English] Attention! This is a fucking order!

Give a guy a gun, he thinks he's Superman. Give him two and he thinks he's God.

 
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