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Title: Great movie.
Review: I saw this movie years ago. John Woo is a master of the action movie. His great directing was the only thing that saved Mission Impossible 2 from being a completely stupid film. It's been a long time since I saw Hard-Boiled, but I remember that Chow Yun Fat was phenomenal; acrobatic and graceful even in the midst of heavy fight scenes. The scene which stuck with me is quite near the end. There's a hostage situation at a hospital which ends with a big gunfight between Chow Yun Fat and the criminals. At one point he grabs up a little baby boy to save it from falling and gets winged by a bullet. Some of his blood hits the baby. He ducks away from the killers and stops to gently wipe away the blood and whisper soothing apologies for bleeding on the little guy. It was an amazingly still moment of tenderness in the midst of the fast-paced violence of the gunfight. I was really impressed.
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