2000 · action · crime · thriller
Time and Tide
Directed by Tsui Hark1h 53m2000
A streetwise young man becomes a bodyguard to score quick cash. He befriends a disillusioned mercenary determined to begin life anew. They find themselves working together to foil an assassination attempt, but their partnership ultimately can't last.
Our read: Time and Tide (2000) reads as a sombre, breathless, inventive action · crime · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme action / crime, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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