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Title: top-notch adrenalin, action, and directing !!!!
Review: It's the hardest thing for a director and his cast to make the viewer feel as if they're actually a part of the movie when it's happening but in this case, mission accomplished. Woo demonstrates his gift for the cinema with this stirring and absorbing saga of a police vendetta against a ruthless gun-runner in modern-day Hong Kong. Woo has also often complained that Hollywood's incessant insurance and legal wranglings ruin the creativity and production of his work. After seeing "Hard-Boiled", definitely a triumph of Hong Kong film-making, one can only imagine the results Woo could achieve if the Hollywood merchants gave Woo the free hand he deserves.
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