Tai Pan
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Movie Reviews of Tai Pan
Movie Review: Tai Pan/Noble House
Summary: 3 Stars
Tai Pan is more than a chick flick or criticzing of Bryan Brown. It is a prelude to a very good mini series: Noble house! If you haven't seen Noble House you have missed an excellent journey thru banking & financing in the power people. P. Brosnan is the supreme smooth talker. Lots of intrigue & dirty tricks. If you haven't seen this one order it from Amazon!!Movie Review: Tia Pan
Summary: 3 Stars
Bought this movie because i've read the book. It was ok, not one of my favorites. IF you are a fan of the time period then you will most likely enjoy this movie.Movie Review: DANGER......DANGER Tai Pan fans
Summary: 1 Stars
If you haven't read the book don't even think about watching this movie. If you have read the book be prepared to be disappointed.
Bryan Brown was terrible as Dirk Straun (and I don't mean just the accent), can anyone who read the book picture Kyra Sedgwick as "Hag" Straun (not even close), Janine Turner is wasted as Shevaun (did she say three sentences in the whole movie?), and Captain Orlov is straight out of comic book central casting, just to name a few atrocities!
The telling of the story is incomprehensible, the viewer never picking up -- let alone understanding -- the interplay between the characters or the motivation behind their actions (not even close). As with other Clavell novels, there is just too much going on behind the scenes to capture it all in a 120 minute movie. I would love to see the story told as Tolkien's Lord of Rings trilogy was told, three - three hour movies. Maybe someone can tempt Peter Jackson into tackling this as one of his major undertakings. One can hope!
Movie Review: Very disappointing...
Summary: 1 Stars
After reading the book I was extremely disappointed by this poor attempt. I had the 'bad joss' of actually buying the dvd after reading the book. If you hadn't read the book the film would be truly incomprehensible, and if you read the book you would feel a tremendous void. As many other reviewers have said, Taipan needs to be reincarnated as a mini-series of some sort to afford it proper treatment.