I've only just got into HK movies but after a friend told me if I'd never seen "Hard Boiled" I'd never seen a real John Woo movie, I bought it.
Mistake! It was dubbed over in English, so I didn't get Tony Leung Chiu-Wai's voice! What a complete personal tragedy!
Bloody good film though. I think I've seen it about six times now. It's a good job these DVD things don't wear out...
Rent it or buy it, just watch it. You'll be glad you did. It now takes pride of place in my Tony Leung collection, hehehe...

FOR THOSE OF YOU IN THE UK... this is being re-released with the original soundtrack (Cantonese) and with a few extra minutes in it on April 16th 2001. Look for the blue cover with Chow Yun-Fat holding the baby in his police riot gear (the scene that never actually appeared in the film!).