Hard Boiled is a
1992 Hong Kong action film written and directed by
John Woo, and starring
Chow Yun-fat as
Inspector "Tequila" Yuen,
Tony Leung Chiu-Wai as Alan an undercover cop, and
Anthony Wong as Johnny Wong, a leader of the criminal
triads. The film features Tequila, whose partner (
Bowie Lam) is killed in a
tea house gunfight with a small army of gangsters. One of the mob's high ranking assassins is the undercover cop Alan, who must team up with Tequila for their common pursuit of taking down Wong's crime syndicate. The film leads up to a climax in a hospital, where the two must rescue innocent civilians and new born babies from the maternity ward while fighting off dozens of mob hitmen.