Tai-Pan

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David W @RT91245001 12/13/2024 Tai-Pan is notorious for its nightmarish production circumstances, but the fact that this film is so bad it’s almost good cannot be solely blamed on that. Questionable acting and one of the worst fake Scottish accents I’ve ever heard share plenty of the blame. Yet, despite its flaws, of which there are many, it still manages to entertain and keep the audience engaged. For that, I would watch it again… if there were no better options available. See more 04/13/2022 The funniest movie from the UK-Hong Kong directors!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL. See more 06/30/2020 Pretty good. This movie by Duke Daryl is based on an epic novel by James Clavell. The main issue I have with the movie is its duration. James' novel has a plot that stretches over months, with characters worth pages and pages of social backgrounds. Had the movie retained everything from the book, it would have been 5 hours long. Unfortunately, the action was therefore squeezed and it's hard to follow what's going on if you haven't read the book before. Aside this, the costumes are great, the music adequately supports the action and the actors performed nicely. Quance's character is perfection. All in all, this movie has its flaws but is still enjoyable. 4 stars. 4.5 if the movie hadn't omitted the 4 broken pieces that sealed Jin-qua's deal. See more 03/31/2015 Tai-Pan (1986) Although I'm a big fan of James Clavell's Shogun, I thought that his book Tai-Pan was far superior. His book about the early China trade, starting with the Opium Wars and then the taking of the island of Hong Kong by the British was wonderful. This brought a continuation of his characters on the rest of his series of books about Asia. The movie, Tai-Pan was perfect timing for the De Laurentiis Entertainment Group with the up-coming transfer of Hong Kong sovereignty back to mainland China in 1997. Unfortunately the transfer of this story to film, just didn't work as well. I still think that it covered the book okayl and it's well worth a viewing especially if your a James Clavell fan. Although Roger Ebert called this movie "The Battle of the Breasts", it does have some of the most beautiful and sexy women of the 80s; Joan Chen, Kyra Sedgwick, Janine Turner, Katy Behean, and scores of unknown cuties. Dirk Struan (Brian Brown) is a Scottish leader of a fleet of sailing ships in the lucrative trading with China. He deals with pirates, corrupt officials, and competing, villainous merchants. He has to deal with high finance and political intrigue to stay afloat and alive. See more 01/19/2015 good version of this See more 04/01/2014 Love and honour against the backdrop of British Empire building and entrepreneurial traders in 19th century China. It's a fair story of imperialist aspirations although the general themes are common enough and ordinarily dealt with by the director. See more Read all reviews

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