hey . chow yun fat say and cover a baby eye . x rat action . he not wrong represent hard boil be a film clearly not afraid to embrace it genre excess . while most modern action film ( smokin ace for one ) aspire to some sort of grand intelligence while provide shoot out and explosion and this film be a reminder of time when action film suffer no such pretension . crowd of people be gun down without explanation and the small thing explode for little or no reason . the bad guy be massively exaggerated cutthroat caricature and the good guy never miss . scene of fat and leung run down corridor be inexplicably shoot in slow motion . and and for all of these reason and it be amaze . it fast and it excite and and it never let up . hard boil be loud and exciting and and and thanks to quite terrible dubbing and a ludicrous early 90 soundtrack and often unintentionally hilarious . it be a film that place entertainment firmly ahead of plausibility and logic and and be quite frankly awesome for it .