A tea house bust of the local Triad blows up in his face, leaving dead criminals, dead civilians, and dead cops. . Tequila's partner, and an undercover officer who Tequila shot in the heat of the action. The police chief berates him for that, and for killing potential informants, and takes Tequila off the case. There is a young man moving quickly up the gun-runner's ranks. Tequila has seen him and fought with him, and he suspects that this new Boss is working with the Chief.
Tequila intends to find out.
In directing A Better Tommorrow I and II , and The Killer , John Woo has shown that he knows his stuff. His action films stack up against anything put out by Hollywood, and Hardboiled is no exception. Once again, he teams up with Chow Yun Fat, probably the biggest name in Hong Kong action films, and once again, they blow the audience away. This theme isn't bad in and of itself, but Woo decides to show it by splicing action scenes in the damndest way. This would be a great sequence, normally, but Woo keeps cutting from it to an extended conversation between the two heroes.