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Time and Tide (2000)

Time and Tide poster
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
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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.

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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)

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