Time and Tide
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Actor: Albert (II), Charles Fok, Jack Kao, Leung Tal Keung, Wu BaiDVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-08-07
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Time and Tide
Movie Review: Like a crack habit. . .once you're hooked, you'll watch it over and over and over. . .
Summary: 5 Stars
This is one of those movies I absolutely love. . .but I'm not entirely sure why. I seem to find myself watching it over and over. When I was in film school we would all get together and watch it, like moths to a flame. Even the most artistic films snobs would sit silently in awe of this movie. But I'll try and recall as much as I can.
First, from a technical standpoint, this film is brilliant. Tsui redefines handheld camerawork in this film. It's not the typical "shaky" cam. It's like a hyper dolly move. Plus, you have to give mad props to any movie where the camera man jumps out the window and rappels down the side of a building after the actor. . .and holds the shot!! (if you missed it, check the apartment shootout when Wu Bai runs and jumps out the window and ropes down the side-that ain't no crane or jib arm, folks) The visual style adds a lot to the overall feeling of the movie.
Second, the movie just drips with cool. But it's not a forced cool. It's just done in such a way that even the simplest actions seem graceful. Effortless.
Third, Anthony Wong and Nicholas Tse are great. Wu Bai brings his brooding rock star thing to the screen quite nicely, as well. But Tsui has never had a problem getting solid performances out of any of the people he's worked with (I don't care what anyone says, I love Knock Off and I'll fight to the death to defend it as a great film). The interplay and banter between characters is cool. Nobody gets overly chatty, but it's enough.
Fourth, the action, while not as plentiful as other films in the genre, is solid. Even in his worst films, Tsui knows how to put action to celluloid. He can do it in his sleep. This movie is no exception. People rappelling down the side of an apartment building having a machine gun battle? What? Are you serious? Yeah, he's the man.
I know people take umbrage with the plot. Yeah, the crazy guy and the cockroaches and all the meandering can seem a little weird. But, like me, just watch it 40+ times and it'll all make perfect sense. Seriously, though, watch it a few times and you'll get it. It gets better every time.
Most people wouldn't enjoy this film. In fact, this is really not a mainstream film in any way. Film people can appreciate the technical specs, and then there are just a select few who will always find themselves mesmerized by it for no apparent reason. But those looking for another Hard Boiled will be quite disappointed. All I can recommend is to try it. You'll either love it or wish you hadn't seen it. But for those of you that do love it, you'll keep coming back to it, time and time again. It will call to you while you sleep, eat, work, even when you're making the sweet lovings. In fact, I think I'm going to pop it in right now. You've been warned.
Summary of Time and Tide
Every time you think you've seen everything action movies have to offer, along comes one that makes your jaw drop. Tsui Hark's Time and Tide is one of those movies. The plot careens all over the place like a drunken driver: it starts out when a bartender in Hong Kong named Tyler (Nicholas Tse) sleeps with a lesbian undercover cop and gets her pregnant. To make money to give her to help support the baby, he takes a job with a bodyguard firm run by a loan shark--all of the other bodyguards are men who owe the loan shark money and are trying to work off their debt. The firm gets an assignment protecting a wealthy executive, who has a daughter who's married to a butcher named Juan (Wu Bai) who's actually a former mercenary--OK, this is where things really go off the rails, but never fear: you will not be bothered by the story. You will find yourself caring about these characters, even though you're not entirely sure who they are. You will not be bored for a single moment of this movie, and when you get to the sequence where the mercenary and the head of the heist gang (who are former partners--maybe) are having a shootout while rapelling down the walls of a gigantic Hong Kong tenement, time will suspend and you will gaze in rapt astonishment, unable to understand how anyone could have conceived of these astonishing action sequences, let alone brought them to delirious, stunningly graceful life. Time and Tide is amazing, and Tsui Hark (Peking Opera Blues, Once upon a Time in China, Green Snake) is one of the geniuses of contemporary cinema. --Bret FetzerSimilar DVD Movies
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