Hong Kong Hard Boiled sits in the top 3% of Hong Kong films on this catalog — ranked #24 of 836 by TMDB audience score.
Synopsis
辣手神探
“As a cop, he has brains, brawn, and an instinct to kill.”
A cop who loses his partner in a shoot-out with gun smugglers goes on a mission to catch them. In order to get closer to the leaders of the ring he joins forces with an undercover cop who's working as a gangster hitman. They use all means of excessive force to find them.
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #24 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (97th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +1.3 points above the Hong Kong average of 6.3/10.
Among Hong Kong Action productions specifically: #10 of 516 (top 2%).
Audience Engagement
694 audience reviews — more than 96% of Hong Kong films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 90th percentile among Hong Kong films.
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Action + Thriller in Hong Kong
121 Hong Kong titles in our catalog blend the Action and Thriller genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Hard Boiled itself).
The 1991–1993 Hong Kong Window
Among 75 Hong Kong films we catalog from this window, Hard Boiled places #2 — near the top of its class.
The 1990s Hong Kong Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 1990s in Hong Kong, 215 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Hard Boiled premiered alongside 21 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 21 other Hong Kong films in 1992.
The 341st Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Hard Boiled, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- arms dealer · 3
- inspector · 2
- arms smuggling · 1
- drugs · 24
- hong kong · 73
Production Details
| Primary Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Cantonese |
| Spoken Languages | Cantonese, Mandarin, English |
| Production Companies | Golden Princess Film Production Limited, Milestone Productions |
| Runtime | 2h 6m |
| Release Date | April 16, 1992 |
| IMDb | tt0104684 |