Hard Boiled | Deluxe Edition | 4K UHD+Blu-ray

Not just the pinnacle of John Woo's career, but the pinnacle of action cinema as a whole. Hard Boiled is everything any action movie could ever dream of being. All the guns, all the fights, all the cars, all the explosions. This is the dream realized.

The first hour of this movie contains a couple of the biggest and best gun-battle set pieces ever put together on film. That warehouse scene would be a career defining moment for just about any other director. Then the last act of Hard Boiled sets up and we're treated to one massive hospital-spanning festival of mayhem. It's a delight.

Chow-Yun Fat was an absolute legend in this era of Hong Kong cinema. Few stars have ever been so charismatic and attention grabbing. Whenever he's on screen it's hard to remember anyone else even exists. Throw in a classic, star-crossed bromance with Tony Leung and this is the alpha and omega of heroic bloodshed, never to be equaled.

Special Features (via Shout! partner gruv.com)

• 4K Scan from the Original Camera Negative
  
• Presented in Dolby Vision
  
• Optional English Subtitles Newly Translated for this Release
  
• Audio Commentary with Director John Woo and Film Journalist Drew Tayler
  
• Audio Commentary with Film Historian Frank Djeng
  
• Audio Commentary with Director John Woo, Producer Terence Chang, Filmmaker Roger Avary, and Critic Dave Kehr (Recorded by The Criterion Collection)
  
• Violent Night: Interview with Director John Woo
  
• Boiling Over: Interview with Actor Anthony Wong
  
• No Time For Failure: Interview with Producer Terence Chang
  
• Hard To Resist: Interview with Screenwriter Gordon Chan
  
• Boiled to Perfection: Interview with Screenwriter Chung Hang Ku
  
• Body Count Blues: Interview with Composer Michael Gibbs
  
• Hong Kong Confidential: Inside Hard Boiled with Author Grady Hendrix
  
• Gun-Fu Fever: Interview with Author Leon Hunt
  
• Chewing The Fat: Interview Academic with Lin Feng
  
• Deleted and Extended Scenes
  
• Trailers
  
• Image Gallery