Tai Pan
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Movie Reviews of Tai Pan
Movie Review: A Good Thrilling Drama!
Summary: 4 Stars
This movie explains a lot about the miniseries sequel Noble House. I liked both this one and the miniseries. See both!Movie Review: Tai Pan
Summary: 4 Stars
The quality fo the DVD is excellant and it is all that I had expected it to be.
Movie Review: great trading empires
Summary: 3 Stars
James Clavell is known for his blockbuster best selling novels about the historical orient.
Shogun and Gai-Jin are both sagas of more than 1000 pages each.
This movie is an abbreviation of one of those novels about the founding of Hong Kong
and the place it played in the Opium, tea and silk trade. The enslavement of Chinese
to the opium smoking habit made many British trading house fortunes.
This movie is a fictionalization of life of such a trader Dirk Struan
and his feud with another trader. Since there are more than one book in these series,
the movie has a kind of incomplete feel to it. The revolving morals
of these tycoons involved father two or more families,one entirely English
and the other half Chinese.
Understanding and misunderstanding lead to strange crosses of destiny
between Chinese and English that end in a change of ownership
caused by a large storm.
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.
Movie Review: Short Changed
Summary: 3 Stars
I just saw the movie for the first time from HBO. I figured this had to be like the cut down version they sold of Shogun for a while. But what I'm reading here it apparently isn't. I agree completely that they really short changed this movie by cutting it up like this. You can tell there had to be more because the movie jumped from place to place without much flow. I would really like to see a version that I believe was originally a mini series. I'm pretty sure I give it a 5 star rating then. It had so much going for it much like Shogun. I hope someone decides to restore the original as part of a set from Shogun to King Rat.
I'm amazed that Joan Chen didn't make it bigger. She's really damn good, and very pretty to boot...