Jarv’s Birthday Series: Hard Target (1993)

ALRIGHT!!! This is what I’m talking about. Hard Target (release date 20th August 1993 in the USA) was a film I saw on video at the mighty age of 16 and loved unequivocally. I knew nothing about John Woo or various conventions that would become tiresome in his American period (looking at you Face/Off), but this film rocked my little casbah. Man, for a teenager this had almost everything you could ask for: extreme ass-kickery, stupidity by the gallon, ‘splosions, more ass-kickery. All it lacked to my teenage mind was boob. To be fair, after the last few films that I’ve sat through on this list, I was owed this. Owed it big time.