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* ''[[Hard Boiled (film)|Hard Boiled]]'' - John Woo's last big Hong Kong movie, this movie is perhaps ''the'' most action-packed ever. Chow Yun-Fat stars as a [[Cowboy Cop]] named Tequila who fights Triad gunrunners in a series of explosive shootouts. He teams up with Alan, another [[Hitman with a Heart]] played by Tony Leung Chiu-Wai who turns out to be an undercover cop who has infiltrated the gang and was forced to betray his last Triad boss. The movie kicks into action overdrive when midway through the film, the [[Big Bad]], Johnny Wong, and his crew of bad guys take over a hospital in [[Die Hard on an X|pure Die Hard fashion]], and Tequila and Alan have to save everyone that they've taken hostage and take down the bad guys once and for all in true [[Heroic Bloodshed]] fashion in one of the most explosive running shootouts that John Woo has ever filmed.
Woo eventually ended up in Hollywood, where he directed ''[[Hard Target]]'', ''[[Broken Arrow (1996 film)|Broken Arrow]]'', ''[[Face Off]]'', ''Blackjack'', ''[[Mission: Impossible|Mission: Impossible II]]'', and other movies, though only ''Face/Off'' has approached the quality of his earlier works in the eyes of many fans. He also recently helped produce a game called ''[[Stranglehold]]'' which is a sequel of sorts to ''Hard-Boiled'' and which pits Inspector Tequila against the father of the [[Big Bad]] from ''Hard Boiled''. Woo additionally became known on the [[Anime]] scene as the producer of ''[[Appleseed Ex Machina]]''.
Woo recently returned to Chinese cinema, directing a big budget two-part film covering the Battle of [[Red Cliff]].
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