Time and Tide is a
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directed by
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that won the 2000
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Tyler (
Nicholas TseNicholas Tse, or Tse Ting-Fung, is a Hong Kong based Chinese singer-songwriter, actor and musician. He is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English. He is a member of the Emperor Entertainment Group...
), gets a lesbian cop, Ah Jo (Cathy Tsui), pregnant after a drunken night. He joins an unlicensed bodyguard service lead by Uncle Ji (Anthony Wong), to make money to give to Ah Jo who wants nothing to do with him. Nearly nine months later Tyler meets up with a butcher named Jack (
Wu BaiWu Bai is a Taiwanese rock singer and songwriter...
) and his pregnant wife, Ah Hui (
Candy LoCandy Lo is a Canto-rock singer-songwriter and actress from Hong Kong. She has released 9 studio albums, over 40 singles, 2 compilations, 1 live album and 1 EP with Sony Music to date. On June 11 she released her first EP on her new label WOW Music....
), who helps Tyler, at Ah Hui's father's birthday, prevent the father's assassination.
Time and Tide is a
2000A list of films produced in Hong Kong in 2000:.-2000:-External links:* * Hong Kong films of 2000 at...
Hong KongThe cinema of Hong Kong is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, and the cinema of Taiwan...
actionHong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame. It combines elements from the action film, as codified by Hollywood, with Chinese storytelling and aesthetic traditions, to create a culturally distinctive form that nevertheless has a wide transcultural...
filmFilm encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects....
directed by
Tsui HarkTsui Hark, born Tsui Man-Kong , is a New Wave film director in Hong Kong and a highly influential producer.-Early life:...
that won the 2000
Venice Film FestivalThe Venice Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world. Founded by Count Giuseppe Volpi di Misurata in 1932 as the "Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica", the festival has since taken place every year in late August or early September on the island of the Lido, Venice,...
Future Film Festival Digital Award.
Plot
Tyler (
Nicholas TseNicholas Tse, or Tse Ting-Fung, is a Hong Kong based Chinese singer-songwriter, actor and musician. He is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English. He is a member of the Emperor Entertainment Group...
), gets a lesbian cop, Ah Jo (Cathy Tsui), pregnant after a drunken night. He joins an unlicensed bodyguard service lead by Uncle Ji (Anthony Wong), to make money to give to Ah Jo who wants nothing to do with him. Nearly nine months later Tyler meets up with a butcher named Jack (
Wu BaiWu Bai is a Taiwanese rock singer and songwriter...
) and his pregnant wife, Ah Hui (
Candy LoCandy Lo is a Canto-rock singer-songwriter and actress from Hong Kong. She has released 9 studio albums, over 40 singles, 2 compilations, 1 live album and 1 EP with Sony Music to date. On June 11 she released her first EP on her new label WOW Music....
), who helps Tyler, at Ah Hui's father's birthday, prevent the father's assassination. Tyler tries to convince Jack to start a bodyguard service with him, but Jack turns him down.
A group of South American mercenaries, known as the
Angels arrive and threaten Jack, who they call Juan, and their second in command Miguel (Couto Remotigue) offers him a chance to rejoin them if he kills his own father-in-law. Instead, Jack kills the leader of the
Angels evades Uncle Ji's bodyguards, knocking Tyler out in the process, and then steals a case full of cash from under their noses and escapes from the Angels. Jack drops his wife off at her father's mansion, giving her a key to a train station locker telling her to go there when their child is born. Tyler is interrogated by the cops in connection with Jack, they accuse him of being connected to the killer because he saw him up close. Tyler tells them nothing.
An Jo tries to parole Tyler, but is unable to, though Uncle Ji manages. Tyler thanks An Jo, and Uncle Ji locks him up in a transportation crate for a night before letting him out and getting Tyler to tell him about Jack. Uncle Ji then give Tyler some more money, which Tyler turns around and tries to give to Ah Jo where he finds out that she has just gone into the hospital to give birth. Tyler heads off after Jack, and breaks into his apartment only to find the
Angels and Jack have the place staked out.
A running gun battle ensues between Jack and the
Angels as Tyler desperately tries to survive one of them in Jack's apartment. Tyler ends up trapped in the apartment with the gas leaking and only manages to survive the explosion by hiding in the refrigerator on Jack's advise. Jack's tricks and cunning out maneuver the
Angels into killing one of their own and distracting them long enough so he and Tyler can escape the rest. Miguel admits defeat and tries to call a truce with Jack, but then calls it off when one of the other
Angels spots Jack's wife who arrives on the scene to see her former apartment burning.
The
Angels take off after An Hui, along with Tyler who sees this, and they all follow her to the train station. Along the way Tyler steals a taxi with his fake gun, giving his wallet to the driver, who promptly takes it to the cops. The police, still suspicious of Tyler from earlier, place him on the scene of the gun battle and explosion send a SWAT team after him to the station. At the station, Tyler confronts An Hui with his fake gun and takes the money Jack stole from the
Angels. An Hui goes into labor and one of the
Angels shoots a cop, and an innocent, while trying to shoot Tyler.
Panic ensues, Tyler drags An Hui off to safety and the SWAT team arrives to deal with the situation. As they send in a medic team to retrieve An Hui, the
Angels open fire on them. Jack arrives on the scene just before the SWAT team, including Miguel and other disguised
Angels, starts a full invasion with tear gas. In the midst of the gases, Jack, the
Angels, and the SWAT team hunts after each other, with several SWAT officers silently killed one by one by the
Angels, who then disguise themselves in SWAT gear, killing even more unsuspecting officers. Tyler escapes with An Hui to the railway tracks, where Jack saves the life of the SWAT team lieutenant and surrenders to him.
The remaining
Angels escape through a tunnel to a stadium full of concert goers. Tyler has to hunker down in the tunnels as An Hui starts to give birth, and Jack convinces the SWAT Lieutenant to let him go after Miguel in the stadium. Jack confronts Miguel in the catwalks above the concert goers and defeats him. Meanwhile, Tyler helps An Hui successfully give birth before the last of the
Angels shows up. He beats Tyler up and threatens the child. He gets shot repeatedly by An Hui.
Jack is given a heads start to escape the police and visits with his wife, and Tyler recovers the money before going off to the hospital to see his child.
Cast
- Nicholas Tse
Nicholas Tse, or Tse Ting-Fung, is a Hong Kong based Chinese singer-songwriter, actor and musician. He is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin and English. He is a member of the Emperor Entertainment Group...
- Tyler
- Wu Bai
Wu Bai is a Taiwanese rock singer and songwriter...
- Jack
- Candy Lo
Candy Lo is a Canto-rock singer-songwriter and actress from Hong Kong. She has released 9 studio albums, over 40 singles, 2 compilations, 1 live album and 1 EP with Sony Music to date. On June 11 she released her first EP on her new label WOW Music....
- Ah Hui
- Cathy Tsui - Ah Jo
- Anthony Wong Chau-Sang - Uncle Ji
- Couto Remotigue Jr. - Miguel Joventino
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