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Summary: Welcome to a thrill ride
Review: I saw this on cable about four times all I can say is wow.I mean the tenement scene alone is well worth the purchase and for the ladies the lead star is very cute to boot. It's been a while since I saw it, but some movies have you reeling for days this is one of them.
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Summary: An excellent movie, overrated as hell though.
Review: I think this movie is a tad overrated. There is lots of action but not as much as they would have you think. People also think it fit to compare this to John Woo classics like Hardboiled. sorry. this comes no where close. Hardboiled had more deaths in its first 10 minutes then this movie had in 113 minutes. WOO IS THE ACTION KING!! Not Tsui Hark. He will never surpass Woo in the action department. he should not try. The action scenes in this movie are good though, but cant compare to the jaw dropping gun fights in Hardboiled. That said this movie is still very good but is not a great one. The body count was not as high as it should have been. But eh camera work was amazing. The story was weak but that can be overlooked.
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Summary: Take Note Hollywood
Review: If films like Time and Tide become standard fare from Hong Kong in our new century, everyone in Hollywood as a whole better start looking a new job. This movie easily ecplipses any and all American action films put out in years (possibly ever). Tough, dynamic, gritty, stylish, intelligent, and imaginative in the way only Hong Kong Cinema can be and held together with good, solid characters, this movie holds you from beginning to end. A part-time bodyguard (Nic Tse) befriends a man (Wu Bai) and his wife, both of whom he meets on the job. Initially unknown to Nic Tse's character, Wu Bai turns out to be a former mercenary trying to make a new life for himself and his now pregnant wife, all of which becomes threatened when Wu Bai's former partners show up in town looking to set up shop. Inevitably, an armed confrontation ensues between Wu Bai and his former comrades that endanger his wife and draw Nic Tse into the crossfire while turning Hong Kong into a combat zone. The action sequences that take up most of this film are probably some of the best ever put on film (in my opinion) and literally defy any possibility of description. The final confrontation especially is a work of visual genius; set in a Hong Kong train station and an adjacent (and packed to capacity) stadium, the scene rapidly turns into a running tag-team match between Wu Bai, his former associates, and what looked like 30 SWAT police. The only scene that could eclipse it is the attempted ambush of Wu Bai by the mercenaries at Wu Bai's appartment (and where he retaliates by thinning their numbers by about half) The worst you can say about this film is that it often travels at a pace that leaves the viewer behind. Unless you speak fluent Cantonese or you're a speed reader, you'll have to rewind occasionally to catch what's being said and to keep up ith events in the movie. Just don't let that stop you from seeing this film. Rewinding to catch something you miss is far more preferable to fast-forwarding just for the sake of getting through a movie that's boring you to tears, which is frequently what happens with most of Hollywood's recent offerings of recycled cliches.
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Summary: Tsui Hark: The Legend Strikes Again
Review: If they ever have a competition for the god of Asian cinema, obvious nominations would be John Woo ("The Killer", "Hardboiled", "A Better Tomorrow I & II"), Chow Yun Fat (the same) and the director of "Time and Tide", Tsui Hark. Hark was a producer on "The Killer", my all-time favorite movie. If I am correct, he was also a producer for "A Better Tomorrow." Plus, he directed "Once Upon a Time in China." If those aren't credentials for god of Asian cinema, what do you have to do?
"Time and Tide", there is no American equivalent. It is over-the-top, nothing but action masterpiece. Even though there's nothing but action, there are some incredible dramatic moments. One of my favorite scenes is them riding along in the car singing to the Chinese song. It's almost as great as "Tiny Dancer" in "Almost Famous." If you love any kind of action, this is it.
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Summary: Bizzarre, But Entertaining
Review: If you like Hong Kong actions flicks, this is a pretty good one. This is a movie and not a documentary. So enjoy it as such. The movie is a bit more straight forward than appears.The characters, themselves, are a bit unusual so your brain figures there must be some other subplot, which there really isn't. Also, there are two women in the movie that look similar and you can get confused. When you get them confused, you think something else is happening again. But that's OK. The confusion and misdirection add to the enjoyment of the film. It gives it a cinema verite feel. I really, really like it!
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Summary: Acceptable at Best
Review: If you like movies that have little-to-zero-plot, no character development and prolonged, graphically enhanced, often mind-numbingly-boring violence, this is the film for you. I have to admit some of the action sequences were visually impressive but the story itself was, in my opinion, all but incoherent. The film saved itself from a one star review in the last half hour. Watchable, but barely.
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Summary: An underrated amazing classic
Review: In Time and Tide, Hark Tsui does an amazing job of creating a dichotomy between the two characters like two pieces of string that are gradually woven closer together til they are made into one braid. On one side you have the Tyler (Nicholas Tse) who has just gotten a lesbian cop pregnant and is trying to escape Hong Kong for a South American beach. On the other side is Juan (Wu Bai), an ex-mercenary who has left South America and trying to settle down with his pregnant wife. Tyler is torn as he wants to get away but wants to do the responsible thing and support his child and its mother. He gets a job as a bodyguard which he slips his wages to support his unborn child. On one of Tyler's bodyguard assignments he is placed in charge of protecting Juan's father-in-law. Juan's assistance on the assignment quickly develop a friendship between Tyler and himself. Juan's ex-mercenary group has made its way to Hong Kong and offer him forgiveness for his leaving if he kills his father-in-law. Juan assassinates the leader of the mercenary group instead. As his former colleagues close in and his wife gets closer to delivering the baby, Juan must hold off his new enemies and save his family. This DVD offers the movie in Mandarin, Cantonese and English and the option of subtitles is also included. The dubbing is not exceptional but is not distracting (far worse has been produced in other movies). Every year Hollywood mass-produces action movies but this is a rare gem in the mainstream pile of sewage. T&T offers amazing cinematography while creating high-octane action scenes which are carefully choreographed. It is refreshing to see a movie which uses action scenes to further the plot then for the sake of appealing to teen males. I do not especially enjoy action movies and find that the new ones released each year are tedious and do not have anything new to offer but T&T defies these odds and excels far beyond in its originality. The extras on the DVD are minimal but do not hinder the power of this DVD. It is disappointing that more people have not seen or even heard of this movie. It deserves all the critical acclaim that it has received and more. - : ] k a m i k a z i X [ : -
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Summary: Good
Review: It is a good action movie. It has a very good story and great action. The way the movie is filmed, is excellent.
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Summary: This is a GREAT movie!
Review: It is full of action and Drama. Also has Nicholas Tse in it which makes the movie even better.
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Summary: Tsui Hark does it again - or does he?
Review: Okay lets start by taking the other reviews with a grain of salt. Im always a little suspicious when I pick up a HK flick. Its like with Forrest Gumps box of chocolades. "You never know what youÂ're gonna get". Anyways, the reviews below told me to buy the movie. So I did and this is my feelings about it. IÂ'll recapture the film for you quickly. Boy meets girl in bar. They get drunk. Have sex - or do they?. Girl gets pregnant - with boy?. Boy wants to help. Girl doesnÂ't want help. Boy has no money. Boy joins uncleÂ's bodyguard firm to get money for girl. Okay lets forget the first 25 minutes of this movie. The girl has no place in this movie. Some might argue with me, but besides acting as a simple love interest. I can only see the parallel to the pregnant wife of the boys friend. Aha - read on.. In comes the boys "friend". Well on the cover they are called friends, but in my eyes...well then they are just to guys meeting up and trying to obtain the same goal. Okay in comes the bad guys. Spanish speaking psychos. Apparently our friend has a problem with them and the boy gets caught in the middle because his uncleÂ's firm is watching out for the psychoÂ's leader. (Friend shoots the leader in the head and boy becomes a suspect because he knows "friend") With all this slow building storytelling over. (Okay with some small time action from time to time) This is the place where the film kicks in and where I thought I had just wasted [money] on a HK flick. But in the last hour of the film, you comepletly forget about the [terrible] story and a simply taking by the incredible action stuff that Tsui Hark comes up with. So folks the story [is terrible] big time, but the action in the end are so COOL. And let me just point out that I donÂ't need action all the time, but what I do need is a good story. I really wanted to give this movie 5 stars. Actually everytime I watch a movie a hope I can give it 5 stars, but in this case I can only give 3. The action is worth the 3 stars alone. The story none. Why is this stupid bodyguard boy running around protecting people with a platic gun thoughout the whole movie - even though people are shooting at him? ... I think im gonna see it again toninght. I might be surpriced. Cheers
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