{"id":39603,"date":"2025-08-10T13:37:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39603"},"modified":"2025-08-10T13:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T17:37:31","slug":"hard-boiled-1992-directed-by-john-woo-starring-chow-yun-fat-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39603","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hard Boiled&#8221; (1992) directed by John Woo; starring Chow Yun-Fat \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z081025zview_hardboiled.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"735\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Hard Boiled<\/i><\/b><strong> (1992)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director:\u00a0 <strong>John Woo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Gordon Chan, Barry Wong; <\/strong>story <strong>John Woo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>As a cop, he has brains, brawn, and an instinct to kill.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Plot&#8230;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hong Kong Police Inspectors &#8220;Tequila&#8221; Yuen and his partner Inspector Benny Mak are watching gun smugglers during an exchange.\u00a0 When a rival gang shows up a shootout takes place.\u00a0 Several gangsters, civilians and Benny Mak are killed in the battle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tequila vows revenge.\u00a0 Tequila learns that Alan, one of the gang leader&#8217;s most trusted killers,\u00a0 is an undercover agent.\u00a0 Tequila reaches out to Alan and proposes that they work together to bring the gangsters down.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re going to need a lot of bullets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The famous scene where Chow Yun-Fat does the &#8220;staircase slide&#8221; while firing was improvised on the set.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The hospital gun battle runs a good thirty minutes including one three minute single take scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When first released and for many years after, <em>Hard Boiled<\/em> was considered the apex action film.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><b><i>Hard Boiled<strong> (1992)<\/strong> <\/i><\/b>rates 4 of 5 stars<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2025\/z081025zview_hardboiled2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard Boiled (1992) Director:\u00a0 John Woo Screenplay: Gordon Chan, Barry Wong; story John Woo Stars: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Chiu-wai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,51,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39604,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39603\/revisions\/39604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}