Bad plot. Horrible dialogue. God-awful acting. The only thing it had going for it was the admittedly crazy action, and would have been loads better if it was a parody.
The action was so... bland. Two hours of shooting. Unrealistic shooting. Nothing more. I love shooting, but this movie somehow made it boring.
Better than a dozen Die Hards? At least Die Hard was entertaining.
I still consider it a classic. I have yet to find a better over the top action movie. If you want an action parody go watch Hot Shots II or Shoot em Up. This movie, along with his other action movies in the late 80's early 90's (ending with Face-Off) were some of the most fun movies to see at the theater. Its what I expect from a good action movie. The plot is very thin, but it is not the focus of the movie.
shareBad acting ? did you watched the dubbed version ?
share...and exactly what is the purpose of this post? To express how much you don't like the movie by summing it up as STUPID without any sort of critical analysis? Don't get me wrong -- you're entitled to your opinion but why troll?
Bad plot? - That's entirely subject. It's a "popcorn movie". If you want intelligent provactive plots may I suggest a Cohen brothers movie.
You also seem to contradict yourself by stating the action is "crazy action" and then in the next paragraph refer to it as "boring". So if the action is so terrible how come every Hollywood action director has ripped off the John Woo style gunfights?
As far as "unrealistic", compared to what? The Matrix? Desperado? or any of the other dozens of Hollywood directors that ripped off the John Woo gunfight choreography? Once again, it's a "popcorn movie". Don't confuse it with Citizen Kane, or The Godfather.
However, the most unfair comparison is comparing it to Die Hard (although quite frankley I could watch Hard-Boiled more often than Die Hard). It's apples to oranges. The production costs, cultural style of filmmaking, filmmaking processes are entirely different. It's like watching an Indian Bollywood movie and saying it's unrealistic that everyone is breaking out into song and dance in the middle of a gun battle. Yet, it doesn't make it stupid just because we don't understand it from our own culturally myopic perspective.
Not to mention the last thing film needs to be is realistic. It's only escapism. The late actor Jack Lemmon said that (paraphrased) he didn't try to recreate reality in his acting because reality was too subtle for the movie screen.
I'm not saying you should like the movie. If you don't, you don't. But at least analyze it with a fair measuring stick.
ViolentRhapsody, if that response took 5 minutes to write, you gave this guy 5 minutes more than he deserved.
Hard Boiled is a classic, plain and simple.
how can you judge the dialogue? they talk differently in China
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A rogue cop rappels into a warehouse, absolutely overflowing with gangsters, cars, motorcycles and things that explode. He proceeds to single handedly massacre nearly every last soul within. Of course it's stupid - STUPID *beep* AMAZING!
shareIf you look from an Asian eye,the acting is good but about action....is great in some cases,some moments but i prefer "DIE HARD"!
shareDid you watch the dubbed version or the original language version with subtitles? It makes a world of difference when one critiques the acting of a movie.
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