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Summary: Pretty good movie
Review: Time and tide is a pretty good movie, but it's not quite as good as the hype would have you believe. There is a good amount of action and gunplay, but not nearly as much as Hardboiled. The best thing about this movie is that Tsui Hark tries some special effects and camera work that I haven't seen in a HK movie recently. Also, the production value of this movie seems to be a bit higher than normal HK movies. The story is pretty interesting although a bit confusing at times. If you just sit back and watch the movie w/out thinking too much, you should enjoy it.
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Summary: Another wild HK action flick
Review: Time and Tide is another of the seemingly endless Hong Kong action flicks. As far as story goes I'm not quite sure I got it all, but when it comes to the action scenes it delivers masterfully. Hark continues to use the camera in different ways, as reflected by a haplass thug walking into a corridor filled with grenades. The camera does a "bullet time" pan around the thug as the grenades go off. Anyone who's seen Swordfish will recognize the similarities in the shots. Also, the shootout in the tenement building is a truly inspired scene. Characters running along walls, rappeling down chutes...some wonderful stuff. I do think it gets a little slow leading into the final action scene with a masterful Wu Bai acrobatic showdown in the catwalks above a packed arena. If you like this kind of movie you don't even need to read a review. I only wish I had caught Time and Tide in it's limited US theatre run!
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Summary: Incredible!
Review: Time and Tide is one of those movies that will entertain you every time you watch it. I bought this movie fairly recently and have watched it at least five times already, 'cause it's that [darn] good. The story starts out simple, but then evolves into something much more than just a typical HK action plot. I could spoil it for you right now and tell you the whole story like other reviewers here have, but then I'm not that stupid. Time and Tide is a movie that you must experience with knowing little as possible going in in order to take in everything. The action can be summed up in one word: STYLISH. The gun fights are shot in a way that seems almost artistic. The bullets and bodies fly through the air with such style that it puts new meaning to "Poetry in Motion". Although I was expecting more martial arts/hand-to-hand combat (don't get me wrong, there are a few scuffles along the way, but if you're a fan of Jackie Chan like me, then you might be a little disappointed), the epic gun battles seemed more appropriate for the grim story. In other words, the action, like the movie itself, is something you must see to believe. Time and Tide isn't for everyone, but for fans of HK action movies, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Disappointing and exhausting.
Review: Time and tide may wait for no man, but Tsui Hark's film certainly doesn't, jettisoning coherence and character in its Leone-lunge to the finish. 'Time and Tide' follows the wearisomely familiar 'North By Northwest' action formula - a cocky, irresponsible and selfish man emotionally matures and learns to think about others, to the point of risking his life. Just in case we miss the point, there are TWO pregnant women in the film - his struggles to develop feelings, mirror the 'difficulties' in giving birth; the babies are a signal of rebirth for men who are willing to ditch their old (macho) lives and start again. The hero is a 21-year-old barman who picks up a hostile undercover cop, whose girlfriend has just ditched her. After a drunken one-night-stand, he joins a dodgy security firm to raise enough money to escape to South America to 'forget' her, or, later, when he discovers she's pregnant, for alimony. Meanwhile, in South America (and I found this part especially difficult to follow), a drug deal and jailbreak have consequences which spill out into Hong Kong. At a job protecting some industrial magnate, the bodyguards learn that an assassination will be attempted. The magnate's outcast, pregnant daughter, who married beneath her, is there with her husband, an abbattoir employee who unexpectedly connects the two plots. Hark's best films ('Peking Opera Blues', 'Once Upon A Time In China') are such fun because the action pyrotechnics are rooted in characters we come to care about. In this film, however, action takes precedence, and characters are left to fend for themselves, which they find more difficult than dodging endless bullets. Even this wouldn't matter if the action was up to Hark's usual spectacular standard. But rather than dance, the set-pieces stutter, the irritatingly 'frenetic' camerawork and jittery editing destroy all momentum. The confusion as to what is going on in any given set-piece leaves the viewer disengaged. The 'choreography' of movement is disappointingly graceless, under-imagined, even perfunctory. The locations, so evocative and central to Hark's major works, are merely functional backdrops. The whole thing goes on far too long, and the sentimental subplot attempting to re-orient the lesbian is tasteless.
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Summary: A stunning vision, and cooler than f**k
Review: Tsui Hark's first Hong Kong movie after a disastrous attempt at moving to Hollywood was a brave movie. He had to let people know he was back, and still at the cutting edge of action cinema. TIME AND TIDE is a movie that confuses a lot of audiences, due to the unconventional editing approach Tsui took. In a similar way to Wong Kar Wai, the editing removes most of the 'standard' scenes that drive plots forward, and leaves the incidental details - the looks, the expressions, the visual mood. You have to dig deep to follow what happens, but claims that the movie has no plot are naive. It's a decidedly cerebral action movie, a rare beast. But it is an action movie first and foremost, and Tsui Hark presents here some of the most excitingly filmed action scenes ever. The choreography, cinematography, editing and soundtrack all come together brilliantly, and the result is dazzling. Highly recommended!
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Summary: more like high 4 like 4.8......
Review: Tsui Hark, once a genius( still is...in some ways)were always a step ahead of the HK directors..( like when everyone were making Wuxia with high flying and special effects, he came with 'Blade') This movie is like taking a rollercoaster ride when you're drunk and high and SICK at same time. Our main character, Tyler( pretty boy, Nicholas Tse) is a bartender and meets this one les cop one night. i duno what happened but they sleep together. and when he finds out she has his child, he starts to work for some Bodyguard company to make money... and there's the guy with long hair...( forgot his name, sorry). Whom, Tyler helps by accident and becomes friend...and he is an ex special force.... some creative stuff but some scenes were not clear and dragging. but , Time and Tide still shows that Tsui Hark has genius ideas.....check out Legend of Zu...but with caution
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Summary: Tsui Hark- What happened man?
Review: Tsui Hark, what happened to you man? You did great action stuff with Jet Li and other famous HK stars. You did a great "Zu (original)".. then you started doing pure gutter junk like the "Legend of Zu" and this garbage. How the mightly have fallen... NOT RECOMMENDED. Classic run-of-the-mill drama-action junk. Forgettable in every way possible. If you like Tsui, check him out in "Police Assassins/Yes Madam".
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Summary: Great Action Film
Review: Tyler wants to escape his current life and run off to a distant place. ...as well as everything else you see mentioned in the other reviews here. For the bulk of the story, he's working for an unlicensed bodyguard service. During one of the bodyguard jobs, he meets Juan who belongs to the "Angels" - a group with military-type training. Tyler's life gets more complicated afterwards. This movie has some wonderful action sequences - especially the scene in the apartment complex as Juan jumps and rappels between the floors. The movie may have some flaws here and there, but it's still very enjoyable. The DVD does provide a director's commentary and trailer but not much else. I would recommend watching this in Chinese with subtitles. For some reason, in the English dubbed version, they didn't dub the Spanish dialogue. I haven't watched the entire movie with the English track so I can only say that most of the Spanish seems to be translated only in the subtitles. If you don't mind subtitles, I would highly recommend this movie to fans fo action films. If you prefer dubbed versions, just be aware of the untranslated Spanish parts.
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Summary: Sad, very sad!
Review: What a disapointment! Hark Tsui used to be my favorite HK movie maker. Both the script & the visual part are negligible here. How come a movie made in 2000 is worse than those made 20 years ago? I am giving up Hark Tsui and HK action movies.
Sad, very sad. Farewell, Hark Tsui!
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Summary: the action film reinvented again...
Review: when 'the matrix' came out north america was exposed to what asian audiences had seen for years. the next step was to put american dollars behind an asian action picture, the result being 'crouching tiger hidden dragon'. i must admit i thought that innovations in action films were going to plateau after this but anyone who has seen "time and tide" knows that's the furthest thing from the truth. what really sets this film apart is not the stunts (although the stunts make the matrix look like steel magnolias) but tsui hark's camera work. dramatic and innovative are both massive understatements. the camera flies around more than the actors do. the plot in this movie is extremely hard to follow but you won't care. this movie was so visually impressive i had to rewind it several times because a shot or stunt blew me away. a must see.
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