NO

OH NOES !!!
Please stop him!

I loved the game, actually. It did have some flaws, but it was still pretty awesome.

the first is in my local smackhead shop for a tenner.. is it worth picking it up just to try or should i avoid it like the plague?

Basing a movie on a game which presented itself as the sequel to a movie that already exists seems kind of silly.

That said, "Hard Boiled" is fucking awesome. The sheer amount of pure, uninhibited badassery happening at on screen at any given time is unparalleled. The game version of Inspector Tequila is by comparison a bit of a pussy.

Seeing as I got the game dirt chap, I was more than happy how the game played, looked and how faithful it was to John Woo's style, if fact you could tell he had, proper, hands on control of how the game was made, unlike 'peter jackson's' king kong or the awful avatar game.

Therefore it was a very,very good max payne clone, and without a doubt the closest you can get to seeing what it would be like to play an interactive movie by him, (John woo), the gunplay was awesome, intense and epic in some instances.
The story was weak,yet you don't play a game by John woo for the story, you play it because no one can do action like him. Even today, years on, most videogames don't hold a candle to how intense and incredible the action is Stranglehold was. The shootout in the [i]museum/i]is one of the very few levels in gaming I hold in the highest regard.

Like eggdog14 said, Hard Boiled in categorically one of THE best action movies ever made, and hugely influential. It was one of the first few movies that had continued, unbroken action scenes, and even they are rare today, children of men being one of the few movies that employed this. Sure the game was a little weak, but for a tenner, it was bloody well worth it.

Meh...

I got the game for $5 new at Fry's so I can't complain.
It had flaws for sure, but still pretty damn fun to me.

But yeah, Hard Bolied is so damn bloody badass.
THE best action movies for sure.
Inspector Tequila is damn hardcore.
Like what eggdog14 said, the game version of Inspector Tequila is by comparison a bit of a pussy.

Stranglehold was awesome when you found the one magic route through the level that killed all the guys while rolling on carts, leaping benches, and running along handrails. If you had to loop back around and clean up any stragglers, it was an exercise in patience. Loved it, tho. Painfully obvious the multi was forced in by the publisher.

Well, so long as the game plot gets rewritten somewhat for the film, I can dig another hong kong gunslinger film by John Woo.

I mean, where the hell did the little girl and the love interest from the game come from? What happened to his gf from Hard boiled? The 2 were talking about marriage by the end of that awesome film!!