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Actors: Nicholas Tse, Wu Bai, Candy Lo, Cathy Tsui
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Time and Tide |
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TIME AND TIDE is a movie co-written and directed by Tsui Hark in 2000. The movie marks the return of the director in Hong-Kong after a U.S. break with a serie of Jean-Claude Van Damme movies.
Tyler is a young chinese working in the illegal body guard company of his uncle. He accidentally meets Jack, a chinese mercenary who once worked for a south american gang and both become pals. As Jack's former employers decide to make some business in Hong-Kong, Tyler is charged to protect their boss. Jack kills him (the boss), steals the money of the deal and is soon the target of his old friends, Tyler's body guard organization and the Hong-Kong police. A masterpiece of the genre. Recommended.
--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Time and Tide |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 70%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 10%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- criminal becomes sensitive
Criminal enemy is...
- Asian crime gangs
If this is a criminal POV story...
- criminals stealing from other criminals
- criminals killing each other
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- blue collar worker
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- obsessed
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- short/standard straight (man)
Body type
- very skinny (man)
Unclothed?
- Chest
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) very short/crewcut
Body type
- muscular (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Chinese
Main Adversary
Identity:
- a criminal organization
Has special powers?
Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist:
- super strength
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Hispanic/Latinoa
Setting
Asia/Pacific
Yes
Asian country:
- China
The Americas (not US):
Yes
The Americas:
- South
City?
Yes
City:
- dangerous
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- gory visuals of deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- vague references only
- lesbians!
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- karate chop
- hand to hand
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
- perforation--swords/knives
Non-American film?
Yes
What language?
- Chinese
Subtitles?
- Yes
Lot of special effects?
Yes
Kinds of F/X
- exploding bombs
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