Hard Boiled” was the grand finale of a revolution in action filmmaking that exploded out of Hong Kong during a brief, glorious period during the 1980s and early ‘90s. It's been nearly impossible to ...

Thirty-three years ago this month, John Woo’s crime thriller “Hard-Boiled” had its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and immediately rewrote the action-movie playbook.

Action fans self-educating about the best the genre has to offer might have spent some time in the ’90s searching for a video store that would carry landmark Hong Kong pictures that received only ...

Chow Yun-fat’s bullet ballet is reloaded and ready to fire again on the Croisette. In the film, a hard-boiled cop (Chow) who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers, goes on a mission to ...

We take it for granted today, but John Woo has one of the most recognizable visual signatures of any living filmmaker. Back in the mid-1980s, what started in Hong Kong reverberated around the world, ...

Jeremy has more than 2200 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

Chow Yun-fat’s bullet ballet is reloaded and ready to fire again on the Croisette. As John Woo’s landmark 1992 action spectacle “Hard Boiled” prepares for its spotlight screening at this year’s Cannes ...

We take it for granted today, but John Woo has one of the most recognizable visual styles of any living filmmaker. Back in the mid-1980s, what started in Hong Kong reverberated around the world, as ...

Chow Yun-fat's bullet ballet is reloaded and ready to fire again on the Croisette. As John Woo's landmark 1992 action spectacle "Hard Boiled" prepares for its spotlight screening at this year's Cannes ...