Hard Boiled
Original title: Lat sau san taam · Turkish title: Sert Polis
“As a cop, he has brains, brawn, and an instinct to kill.”
1992 · 2 h 8 min
Directed by 
John Woo
John WooCast
Chow Yun-fat 
Tony Leung Chiu-wai Teresa Mo
Credits
Written by: John Woo
Plot
A tough policeman and an undercover agent inside a gang join forces to stop an arms dealer, ending in a hospital shootout.
Sinekatalog’s take
John Woo's Hong Kong action film is a ballet of gunfire, with Chow Yun-fat's loose-cannon cop. The hospital shootout in a long take is a standout, and the film defined stylised action.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.7 / 10 (60,947 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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