History Awesome / HardBoiled

** Even Captain Pang, the ObstructiveBureaucrat gets a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in Badass]] during the evacuation of the hospital. After putting up with crap from the ObstructiveBureaucrat Hospital Administrator about evacuating, Teresa simply turns on the fire alarm, obligating them to evacuate. Even then, the Hospital Administrator still tries to stop them. Pang grabs the guy by the shoulders, looks him right in the eye and growls, "If you obstruct me again, I'll ''castrate'' you!"

** The warehouse raid itself is essentially one long string of awesome moments for Mad Dog, who leaves no doubts as to just why he's the [[IncrediblyLamePun top dog]] in Johnny Wong's organisation.

** That bit when Johnny Wong's thugs start locking down the hospital, and find Teresa trying to save the babies in the maternity ward. One of the thugs aims right at her head and starts yelling at her to join the rest of the hostages. What does Teresa do? She ''SLAPS'' the guy right in the face and tells him to shut up because he's scaring the babies.

** Even Captain Pang, the ObstructiveBureaucrat gets a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in Badass]] during the evacuation of the hospital. After putting up with crap from the ObstructiveBureaucrat Hospital Administrator about evacuating, Teresa simply turns on the fire alarm, obligating them to evacuate. Even then, the Hospital Administrator still tries to stop them. Pang grabs the guy by the shoulders, looks him right in the eye and growls, "If you obstruct me again, I'll ''castrate'' you!"
* On a meta level, This film is considered by many critics to be the peak of John Woo's action direction, and the creators of ''Franchise/TheMatrix'', ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'', and ''Film/TheRaid'' have all cited this film as an inspiration in their own works.

** Not to mention Mad Dog. As Johnny's [[TheDragon Dragon]], Mad Dog proves himself a serious badass early on, able to hold his own against both Tequila and Alan, all with only one eye. At one point, he fights the heroes with a single-shot Thompson/Center Contender pistol. But his true SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome is the samurai-style staredown between him and Alan with a number of patients between them, followed by [[spoiler: his HeelFaceTurn when he orders the patients to get out, and then when Johnny bursts in and starts killing the patients, blasts the Mini-Uzi right out of Johnny's hands and calls him on his rather psycho move, even though it ultimately [[RedemptionEqualsDeath gets him killed]]]].
** One of the coolest parts of the hospital sequence is a sequence done with one long tracking shot in a single take that lasts for ''two minutes and forty-two seconds''. The scene sees Tequila and Alan mowing down dozens of mooks [[spoiler: and one unfortunate cop]] through a series of hospital hallways, up an elevator and into several hospital laboratories. The choreography between actors, stuntmen, camera crew and special effects crew is a CMOA in and of itself, in what is already one of the most awesome action sequences in the film.

*** Which is made all the better once the fighting between the thugs and SDU gets underway. Teresa [[spoiler: is helping the SDU evacuate the maternity ward, when a couple of gangsters break into the ward and blow the cops away. There's one thug -- the same guy that Teresa slapped earlier -- and Teresa is the only one left standing. She grabs a gun to defend herself. The thug slaps her in the face to get her to drop the gun. She blows him away without blinking an eye.]] Don't ever mess with her when babies are involved.

** Not to mention Mad Dog. As Johnny's [[TheDragon Dragon]], Mad Dog proves himself a serious badass early on, able to hold his own against both Tequila and Alan, all with only one eye. At one point, he fights the heroes with a single-shot Thompson/Center Contender pistol. But his true CrowningMomentOfAwesome is the samurai-style staredown between him and Alan with a number of patients between them, followed by [[spoiler: his HeelFaceTurn when he orders the patients to get out, and then when Johnny bursts in and starts killing the patients, blasts the Mini-Uzi right out of Johnny's hands and calls him on his rather psycho move, even though it ultimately [[RedemptionEqualsDeath gets him killed]]]].

** Even Captain Pang, the ObstructiveBureaucrat gets a CrowningMomentOfAwesome when he [[TookALevelInBadass takes a level in Badass]] during the evacuation of the hospital. After putting up with crap from the ObstructiveBureaucrat Hospital Administrator about evacuating, Teresa simply turns on the fire alarm, obligating them to evacuate. Even then, the Hospital Administrator still tries to stop them. Pang grabs the guy by the shoulders, looks him right in the eye and growls, "If you obstruct me again, I'll ''castrate'' you!"

** Not to mention Mad Dog. As Johnny's [[TheDragon Dragon]], Mad Dog proves himself a serious badass early on, able to hold his own against both Tequila and Alan, all with only one eye. At one point, he fights the heroes with a single-shot Thompson/Center Contender pistol. But his true CrowningMomentOfAwesome is the samurai-style staredown between him and Alan with a number of patients between them, followed by [[spoiler: his HeelFaceTurn when he orders the patients to get out, and then when Johnny busts in and starts killing the patients, blasts the Mini-Uzi right out of Johnny's hands and calls him on his rather psycho move, even though it ultimately [[RedemptionEqualsDeath gets him killed]]]].

** On a meta level, This film is considered by many critics to be the peak of John Woo's action direction, and the creators of ''Franchise/TheMatrix'', ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'', and ''Film/TheRaid'' have all cited this film as an inspiration for the action scenes in their works.

* In the opening gunfight in JohnWoo's ''Hard Boiled'', Officer "Tequila" (played by Chow Yun-Fat) takes out two bad guys with his guns while sliding down a banister in what may be ''the'' iconic GunsAkimbo moment.

** One of the coolest parts of the hospital sequence is one (roughly) ten-minute sequence done with one long tracking shot in a single take. The scene sees Tequila and Alan mowing down dozens of mooks [[spoiler: and one unfortunate cop]] through a series of hospital hallways, up an elevator and into several hospital laboratories. The choreography between actors, stuntmen, camera crew and special effects crew is a CMOA in and of itself, in what is already one of the most awesome action sequences in the film.

* Spitting out a toothpick, shooting a guy and blood splattering back in your face all in about a nanosecond.

** The entire hospital sequence later in the film has its own Crowning Moments of Awesome as well, including Tequila's unique way of opening the door to Johnny's arsenal, involving gunpowder poured into a pipe and a dead-eye shot on a primer, Tequila and Alan going room to room and blasting up bad guys, Teresa and the Special Duties Unit officers getting the babies of the maternity ward to safety with the bad guys trying to stop them every step of the way, and Tequila saving the last baby in seriously awesome style as Johnny blows the place to hell.

** The entire hospital sequence later in the film has its own Crowning Moments of Awesome as well, including Tequila's unique way of opening the door to Johnny's arsenal, involving gunpowder poured into a pipe and a dead-eye shot on a primer, Tequila and Alan going room to room and blasting up bad guys, Teresa and the SWAT team getting the babies of the maternity ward to safety with the bad guys trying to stop them every step of the way, and Tequila saving the last baby in seriously awesome style as Johnny blows the place to hell.

*** Which is made all the better once the fighting between the thugs and SWAT gets underway. Teresa [[spoiler: is helping the SWAT Team evacuate the maternity ward, when a couple of gangsters break into the ward and blow SWAT away. There's one thug -- the same guy that Teresa slapped earlier -- and Teresa is the only one left standing. She grabs a gun to defend herself. The thug slaps her in the face to get her to drop the gun. She blows him away without blinking an eye.]] Don't ever mess with her when babies are involved.

*** Which is made all the better once the fighting between the thugs and SWAT gets underway. Teresa [[spoiler: is helping the SWAT Team evacuate the maternity ward, when a couple of gangsters break into the ward and blow SWAT away. There's one thug, and Teresa is the only one left standing. She grabs a gun to defend herself. The thug slaps her in the face to get her to drop the gun. She blows him away without blinking an eye.]] Don't ever mess with her when babies are involved.