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03/31/07
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Tears of the Black Tiger (2000)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:45
Rotten:14
Average Rating:6.6/10
Consensus: With a vibrant pastel color scheme and stylized action sequences, Tears of the Black Tiger is a bizarre, yet thoroughly entertaining Thai western.
Theatrical Release:Jan 12, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: TEARS OF THE BLACK TIGER takes a journey back to a lost past – the heroic years of Thai genre cinema, when influences from Hollywood and everywhere else were subsumed into rollicking Thai... [More]
Starring: Chartchai Ngamsan, Stella Malucchi, Suppakorn Kitsuwan, Arawat Ruangvuth
Director: Wisit Sasanatieng
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10/18/08
An oddity, all right: you may find it of interest once. I doubt if you'll want to see its like again.
12/15/03
While I admire the cleverness of its mockery, and suspect it will gain some genuine cult status, it feels like a hollow exercise in style and a joke that goes on for far too long.
12/08/02
If the story were as captivating as the color palette, we'd all be crying tears for the Black Tiger.
11/04/07
The goofing begins to wear thin by the end of Tears' two hours, but even its excessive length is of a piece with the movie, which takes over-the-top to a new level of overness.
03/01/07
Whether this period setting carries any significance would require more contextualisation than I can offer.
03/03/02
The early scenes are interesting and enjoyable. And then the novelty wears off, but the film doesn’t end.
03/05/07
Sometimes, if a director deliberately makes a horrible movie, it's acclaimed as genius.
01/13/07
Goodness knows there are enough winking genre references in Tears of the Black Tiger to fill an encyclopedia of film, but does anyone care, short of self-congratulating movie critics?
01/11/07
Top CriticDelirious and oddball at once, it's like a plate of meringues -- delicious at first, but soon everything tastes the same, and after a while you get sick.
03/17/07
Good looks and a wealth of allusions only get you so far.
01/11/07
The movie is a long time coming, but the wait for the self-absorbed film to end seems even longer. Maybe the Black Tiger's tears are of frustration.
03/14/07
It's watchable, but eventually wears you down with its over-the-top cleverness.
02/09/07
Top CriticWhat should be a zippy, good-natured parody of genre elements instead becomes a labored, almost oppressively stylized cinematic pastiche that's only sporadically engaging.
01/19/07
After the novelty wears off, the lack of depth grows irritating; it's like watching a feature-length soft-drink commercial. I've rarely seen a movie where so much gory violence has so little emotional impact.
11/02/02
A delirious fever dream of pulp-western conventions by way of 1950s Hollywood melodrama.
01/12/07
There may be crazier movies than this Thai cowboy melodrama of betrayal and forbidden love, but I can't think of one that is quite so mad about its own craziness.
01/11/07
Top CriticIt is nice just to sit back and let the day-glo colours wash over you, marvelling at the high-spirited energy.
12/07/07
Inspires the same happy, incredulous feeling as when Jackie Chan first bent the laws of nature or Chow Yun-Fat introduced the two-gun two-step.
02/28/07
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