chow yun fat and toothpick in mouth and a gun in each hand . that all of the plot you need to know . hard boil be my first john woo movie and and in my opinion and his best . no other action movie come close to this . in fact and this be the best pure action epic ever film . upon view it and i immediately fell in love with woo style and his star . it full of the most stylized gunfight ever see and chow yun fat be the definition of cool . the full blown finale defies description . someone once call it an action fan wet dream . there not much more i can say because action speak loud than word . so go see the movie .