[Director] Sasanatieng engages the viewer's emotions fully in the squaring away of the eternal triangle, involving young people who emerge as three-dimensional individuals even though they are archetypal.
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03/01/07
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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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Reviews for Tears of the Black Tiger
Top Critic...more dazzling and more fun than anything else that's opened in this rapidly aging year.
03/01/07
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
The result is something so old it's new, so corny it's funny. And while Tears of the Black Tiger is nothing more than entertaining, at least it's that.
03/01/07
Top CriticInspires 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
...like Gone With the Wind in DayGlo.
02/23/07
Despite its layers of references and patina of kitsch, the movie is sincere at its core, inspiring indulgence of its tinted-sepia flashbacks of childhood meet cutes and its over-the-top, mustache-twirling rival (Kitsuwon).
02/15/07
It's watchable, but eventually wears you down with its over-the-top cleverness.
02/09/07
Top CriticFor at least half its length, it's quite unlike anything else you've seen.
02/09/07
What 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
Sometimes, if a director deliberately makes a horrible movie, it's acclaimed as genius.
01/13/07
What the story lacks in snap, it makes up for in sincerity. [The film's] melodrama is so poker-faced and its gore so explicit (if phony-looking) that it's hard to tell whether you're dealing with the Thai Todd Haynes or the Thai Sam Peckinpah.
01/12/07
Mostly this is the kind of relentlessly postmodern "fun" best served in small portions, and preferably on dessert plates.
01/12/07
A delirious fever dream of pulp-western conventions by way of 1950s Hollywood melodrama.
01/12/07
What makes Tears a must-see are its day-glo colors, stylized gunfights, music that sounds as if Ennio Morricone had written it for one of Leone's spaghetti Westerns, and hyperbolic dialogue.
01/12/07
Director Wisit Sasanatieng uses every trick imaginable to create surreal postmodern nostalgia. Has he wound up with pure camp, or a cult classic? As he clearly understands, the best B-movies are both.
01/12/07
Black Tiger is dreamy-eyed nostalgia with all the tacky dubbing, ridiculous outfits, and blown-out violence that affords it.
01/11/07
The uncut Tears of the Black Tiger is more powerful than the cut version, not least for the way it shows that [director Wisit] Sasanatieng, even amid all the craziness, takes care to tie up even the loopiest plot details.
01/11/07
Top CriticThere 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 CriticGoodness 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
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