Time and Tide (2000)

Original title

順流逆流

Directed by

Tsui Hark

Genre

action film, thriller film

Country

Hong Kong

Runtime

1h 53m

Rated

16

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 192 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young man becomes a bodyguard in Hong Kong and befriends a mercenary who wants to start a new life with his wife. They work together to stop an assassination plot, and events lead them to face each other.

fast-pacedchaotictensestylishaction-packededgygrittyvisceral

What happens

Time and Tide is a 2000 Hong Kong action film directed, produced and co-written by Tsui Hark. The film is set in Hong Kong where a young man becomes a bodyguard and befriends a mercenary determined to begin life anew with the woman he just married. The two men find themselves working together to foil an assassination attempt which propels them toward confrontation with each other. The film was re-written several times during production and post-production stages to accommodate director Tsui Hark's casting choices. The film was nominated for six Hong Kong Film Awards and received generally positive reviews from critics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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