A tough-as-nailsĀ cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers teams up with an undercover agentĀ for their common pursuit of taking down the crime syndicate.
The kinetic action set pieces of Hard-Boiled are so tightly-wound, so intense, that they will either exhilarate or scare off action fans bred on the relatively lame offerings provided by major Hollywood studios.