Tai Pan
by Daryl Duke
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Actor: Bryan Brown, Joan Chen, Kyra Sedgwick, Russell WongDirector: Daryl Duke
Brand: PEACE ARCH HOME ENTERTAINMENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Trinity Home Ent
Movie Reviews of Tai Pan
Movie Review: Tai-pan
Summary: 3 Stars
Tai-pan is perhaps my favorite novel, and the movie just doesn't measure up. If you haven't read the novel, you're not going to have a clue what's going on. Changes to the novel's storyline make this hard to follow, and all the condensing needed to reduce a major novel to under two hours of film left out much of the meat of the story. Would be have been far better made into a mini-series, a la another Clavell novel, 'Shogun.'
Brian Brown did an excellent job breathing life into the title character, despite the limitations of the script. His performance is one of the few bright spots of the film.
Bottom line, the film could have been much better. But even with the myriad flaws, I still enjoyed watching this Clavell treasure come alive.
Summary of Tai Pan
Based on the James Clavell s best-selling novel Tai Pan is an unforgettable adventure during the early China trade when epic adventures carved dynasties out of barren rock and the opium trade pitted father against son and friends against one another. For trader Dirk Struan the silver and opium exchange is almost impossible to resist but everything comes to an action-packed head when he is forced to choose between the ones he loves and profit beyond his imagination.System Requirements:Runnign Time: 127 MinutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 692865145332 Manufacturer No: T-1453Action & Adventure DVD Video
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