if you like movie with gun and action and more gun and action and this be your movie . hard boil be simply the best action movie of all time . hard boil be give the name most violent movie by many critic and when it first release . if you see this movie and you will know exactly why . john woo be in my opinion the best action movie director . if you see this movie carefully and he do many action scene in one camera take . one spectacular scene be the end where the hospital be hijack and the two hero be shoot there way out . it like a computer game and a shoot em up that remind you of virtual cop . the scene show both actor shoot a dozen guy each and move one place to another on the same floor of the hospital . this be a 2 minute scene that be record in one take . this be one example of his great direction . chow yun fat be brilliant a the hard boil cop . tony leung be superb a the undercover cop and hit man . this be a roller coaster ride of violence and entertain to the max .