Time and Tide

Time and Tide (順流逆流, 2000) is a Hong Kong action thriller directed by Tsui Hark that you can watch online on iFILM, starring Nicholas Tse and Wu Bai. Tagline: "Trust is fatal."

Tyler is twenty-one, broke, and unsentimental about it. He hires himself out as a bodyguard for the money. On the job he meets a mercenary who wants out of the life entirely — ready to disappear somewhere quiet and start clean. Circumstances throw them together to stop an assassination, and for a moment it looks like mutual respect might become something more lasting. It won't.

Tsui Hark shoots action like he's running out of time: the camera barely settles, sequences pile on top of each other, and the editing cuts against the expected rhythm to keep you slightly off-balance throughout. For fans of late-era Hong Kong action cinema, this one holds up as one of the most kinetically charged films of its moment. Stream Time and Tide (2000) online on iFILM.