Movie Reviews for Tai Pan

Tai Pan

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Movie Reviews of Tai Pan

Movie Review: Better Second Time Around. Keep Trying...
Summary: 3 Stars

Okay, so I'm a James Clavell fan and a fan of Bryan Brown since his "Alice Springs" days, and granted this remake is far better a screen adaption than the typhoon with Patrick McGoohan of some years back. Production quality and finer drawn characters of Struan, and his "Supreme Lady," MaiMai, and Brock do flesh out the film on the origins of Hong Kong, yet it still lacks the complexity that even the most minor characters, the intrique and convoluted plot of perhaps Clavell's best novel, the first in his series of Noble House. Try again, folks. This novel deserves the full treatment of "Shogun" and "King Rat". (Nice to see Kyra Sedgwick, even if she has too few lines.)

Movie Review: Good, but...
Summary: 3 Stars

Typical Hollywood in that they had to slice it down to the digestible 2 hour (give or take a bit) morsel. Funny enough, I actually thought this was a 10 hour mini-series, like the other Clavell books on film. And for the first hour and a half of the film, it was following the book on pace.
Then they rocketed through the last 400 pages of the book in about 20 minutes, while cleverly adding a segment from Gai Jin (a later Clavell novel) and a happy ending.

All and all, not too bad.

Movie Review: A Bit Confusing
Summary: 3 Stars

Much is missing from Clavel's novel which make "Tai Pan" the movie a bit confusing unless you have read the novel. The movie has many characters that are difficult to sort out and determine where they fit. Parts of the movie are slow and ponderous.