Hard Boiled

Hard Boiled is a 1992 Hong Kong action film directed by John Woo and starring Chow Yun-fat. Many guns, many bullets, many explosions, many deaths as is typical of modern action movies. This one has the police up against rival gangs.

The opening scene shows a man called Tequila fixing a drink with Tequila:

I always have coffee in the mornings, and that's what I'm having now. I may have tequila the next time I have Mexican food. I've never made a Slammer. Looks messy. I'm bringing my drink to the T Stands for Tuesday blogger gathering.

Empire Online describes it as

an explosively visceral, operatic tour de force of breath-takingly choreographed violence and blistering ballistic pyrotechnics that begins over-the-top with a tea-house shoot-out that leaves at least 30 people dead, and then escalates into a succession of even more outrageous action set pieces.

Slant Magazine gives it 4 out of 4 stars and says it "remains one of [the director's] finer moments". Criterion says, "Violence as poetry, rendered by a master—brilliant and passionate". Rotten Tomatoes has a critics score of 94%.