Scars_Remain Westerns have never really been my cup of tea, I usually feel bored or I just turn them off. However, this Thai western was awesome. There's a good amount of comedy, heart and violence. I never thought I'd be seeing a western from Thailand, but maybe that's what made it better for me. This one is big time fun.The filming and camera work both seem very amateurish and it takes away from the experience a bit, which is the reason I didn't give this movie a 9. The acting is a little iffy at times but good for the most part. Everything else is great, the comedy, the romance and most of all, the bloody violence! See it now or I'll come to your house!

Roland E. Zwick In this age in which just about every other film seems to be a sequel, adaptation or remake of a previous work, it seems positively ungrateful and counterproductive to criticize a movie for being TOO innovative and creative - yet that is exactly the case with "Tears of the Black Tiger," a movie that is a mixture of so many different genres and styles that it is virtually impossible to explain what it is like to anyone who hasn't actually seen it.Indeed, if the term, in and of itself, were not self-contradictory and meaningless, one might be tempted to call "Tears" a "Chinese Italian Western," seeing as it draws much of its look and style from those "spaghetti westerns" Clint Eastwood made his name with in the 1960's: "A Fistful of Dollars, "For a Few Dollars More" and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Yet, that would be an inadequate description of "Tears of the Black Tiger" as well, since the movie also looks like one of those glossy 1950's melodramas by Douglas Sirk, on the order of "Magnificent Obsession," "Imitation of Life," and "All That Heaven Allows" (albeit with an all Chinese cast). It certainly makes for a bizarre hybrid, to say the least, but, despite its originality, this tale of an unlikely romance between a gun slinging outlaw (the Black Tiger) and a classy beauty from the upper classes - who seem to be inhabiting entirely different centuries, let alone entirely different parts of the world - fails to ignite much interest in the viewer.With its cartoon-like violence, highly stylized settings, arch acting and corny dialogue, the film is obviously intended to be an affectionate send-up of the kind of escapist, popcorn movies Hollywood has been exporting to the world for nearly a century now. But the movie is too strained to be truly funny, too artificial to be truly involving, with its jumbled, out-of-chronological-order narrative structure finally frustrating the viewer past the point of caring. The bold, garish colors add to the film's air of surrealism, but most people will probably weary of the movie once the novelty of the concept has worn off."Tears of the Black Tiger" is a film one would like to support and admire, but the sad truth is that, in this case at least, the filmmakers were not able to pull the thing off. "Tears of the Black Tiger," for all its goodwill and craftsmanship, earns an "A" for effort, but a mere "Gentleman's C-" for the product overall.

char treuse "Tears of the Black Tiger" is a florid, mind-bending and highly cinematic parody of genres. East meets West and Sam Peckinpah meets Douglas Sirk in Wisit Sasanatieng's brilliant, highly stylized work.In an outrageous palette of costumes, make-up, sets and colors (hot neons and cool pastels, some digitally manufactured), this is the tale of Rumpoey, a girl born into wealth, and her love for Dum, a peasant boy. As young adults, Dum (Thai heartthrob Chartchai Ngansam) joins a gun-slinging outlaw band known as The Tigers, while Rumpoey is betrothed to a slick, handsome police captain, Kumjorn.Much of the film appears to be set in the early 1960s, though its outlaws are strictly of the American Wild West variety (albeit with hand-held rocket launchers). Imbued with a sense of great fun, "Tears of the Black Tiger" is camp, absurd, surreal, melodramatic and strangely poignant, served up in a sumptuous, candy-colored coating.

AwesomeWolf Version: Thai audio, English subtitles (by SBS) There's something quite awesome about a movie that's advertised as a musical western that turns out to be a musical western in which the cowboys carry rocket launchers and wear very colourful shirts. Awesome.In the rather colourful countryside of the rather colourful modern Thailand, a gang of horse-riding, machine-gun toting, Thai cowboys led the by the colourfully villainous Fai (Sombat Metanee). Dum (Chartchai Ngamsan), also known as the Black Tiger, is a member of Fai's gang, and obviously the fastest shot in all the (colourful) land. Dum is competing with fellow gangster Mahesuan the police captain Kumjorn for the affections of Rumpoey (Stella Malucchi), so naturally this leads to shootouts, exploding brains, and lots of evil laughs. How awesome.'Tears of the Black Tiger' seems to be a combination of elements from 'Once Upon a Time in the West' and the 'The Quick and the Dead', only with a lot more comedy and melodrama. And colour. At times it may resemble 'Once Upon a Time in the the West', and then go into Sam Raimi mode during an action sequence, and then go into long scenes developing the melodramatic and colourful love story. Have I mentioned the colour yet? This one colourful movie, and will often induce a visual overload of pinkness. Is that even a word?'Tears of the Black Tiger' can go from melodramatic romance scenes, to the cheap violence that you might expect from Sam Raim or an early Peter Jackson movie (read: 'exploding heads') very quickly. I'm pretty sure this film could set a record in that department. Its a funny movie, and the action scenes are generally very exciting. I'm also convinced that the creators of this film took on a bet to discover just how much of the colour pink can be displayed in one movie. I never knew pink-shirted cowboys could be so tough.'Tears of the Black Tiger' is generally entertaining. I thought it was a little long, but I think most people should enjoy this - 8/10