“In Tusi Hark's new thriller Time and Tide several startling eruptions of violence occur just off-camera, and they're over almost before we know it. This movie's on a nerve-wrackingly short fuse-a tense situation can go lethal in a split second.

In his first contemporary Hong Kong action film…more than 20 years ago, Tusi marshals all his sleight-of-hand editing moves and camera dynamism to convey the feeling of being swept along by a freight-train rush of action. He never allows us to sit back and savor the spectacle, like jaded aficionados. With only a few exceptions, we see every deadly event from the dazed vantage point of a clueless amateur bodyguard named Tyler….we even see things not as they are actually happening but as he imagines them.

Time and Tide will be consumed and mostly written about, even by people who love it, as a convulsive high gloss action picture that, in terms of sheer flash and firepower, establishes a new benchmark even for Hong Kong."