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Summary: A slick Hong Kong action-comedy!
Review: When viewing "Time and Tide", here's a good word of advice for you: don't think too long about the plot. Despite having holes in logic and plot, this is one of those action films that doesn't want to get boggled down in the details. The story as it is involves a young bartender who happens to have everything going bad for him from the start. He gets a cop pregnant (who doesn't really like playing with the opposite sex, if you get my meaning) and she immediately hates his guts. But, he decides to help out by taking a job at a bodyguard agency (run by a loan shark, no less) and happens to gain a friend who's an in-law of one of the clients the agency is protecting. Everything's going great, until he meets his friend's former associates (as in gun-toting, vicious mercenary type "associates") and ends up having to fight to stay alive. One thing this movie's got in spades is action. There are sequences in this film that are thoroughly unbelievable (such as a cat-and-mouse game in a tenement building, a brutal robbery during a tropical storm, and a showdown inside a stadium). It's a film that teeters between romantic comedy and hard-boiled action, and despite seeming to miss a scene or two (watch the trailer on the DVD for evidence) and having a very interesting DVD commentary with director Tsui Hark, "Time and Tide" is at least worth a rental for Hong-Kong action buffs. This one easily blows away a lot of the current crop of summer action epics.
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Summary: Wow! Tsui Hark?
Review: Wow! Tsui Hark, after not doing a good job at carrying on the better tommorow series of Woo's. THIS MOVIE ROCKS! Cool camera angels. And the story does a pretty good job of representing it self. The acting was so-so. BUT THE ACTION Makes up everything (even thou there's not much wrong)
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Summary: Time And Tide Blows You Away!! :)
Review: Wow~~ I waited for this movie soooo long and finally was still amazed by it! Tsui Hark really proved with this that he really is one of the greatest Filmmakers alive! Those of you disappointed with his Hollywood Films should watch this :)The movie features interesting characters (from the leads Nic Tse and Wu Bai over people like their girlfriends and Anthony Wong to "The Angels"). You really get some kind of attached to them and the film does not get boring when there is no action scene. Also the cinematogrophy and overall camera techniques are superb. You can see that Tsui Hark really tries new things and tries to improve. Something John Woo should do too! The Story may seem to be a little bit loose, but the part that is most important of this movie ist the Action! Hung Yan Yan (aka Xiong Xin Xin) does a hell of a job with his action choreography that is really creative and superb! It's a pity that he didn't get the HK Award for the Best Action Design (it went to Crouching Tiger, which is ok, though I think Time And Tide would have really earned it, because it delivers a new style and is inspirative!). You may know Hung Yan Yan as the "Tattowated" from The Blade or as "Club Foot" from OUATIC3. But what is important here, is that he kicks ass! The best shootout is a fight in a big appartment Block where they actually fight BETWEEN the houses! That fight is larger than life!! And also the "in-house-fighting" in this scene is supreme. Wu Bai is sooo cool! =) To summ everything up in some sentences: This movie rockz and the action can easily keep up with "John Woo Action" from HK. The story itself is interesting too and gives an good conclusion. The Cinematogrophy and camera angles are also one reason one should see this movie! Simply: A MUST SEE EVENT!!!
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