Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

One of my all time favorites.

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

"Tears of the Black Tiger" is a stylistic hybrid that brings together the cinematic excesses of Douglas Sirk and Sergio Leone, with a smattering of Quentin Tarrentino. The storyline and dialogue are strictly from hunger, but the voice-over narration can be hauntingly beautiful. It involves a poor boy who falls in love with the governor's daughter. They are separated in childhood and then reunited as adults. In the meantime, the girl has become engaged to a policeman, and the boy has linked up with a band of outlaws and is now known as the Black Tiger. His male-bonding with one of the outlaws is reminiscent of the Monty Clift/Arthur Kennedy relationship in "Red River." It's all very clichéd and yet strikingly original (I half expected a Brokeback angle). The music is folkish, the colors pastel, and the violence over the top. But somehow it makes an impression; this is a film that will continue to haunt me.

Parody/homage/ pastiche/(take your pick) film thats a send up of romance movies and Italian westerns. so over the top you'll wonder if there ever was a top, this is one wild ride, even by Thai movie standards.With blood and gore and painted backgrounds mixing with real locations and a very deliberate sense of reality this film is either going to strike you as a master piece or a piece of cow flop. I'm somewhere in the middle-leaning towards the dislike camp. The problem for me its so artificial I that I was watching the wheels and gears whir instead of watching the story unfold. I also am not really in love with the idea that this is almost two hours long. Overwhelmed with the artifice I turned it off a good clip in. The reaction is not really unexpected since I have a real love hate relations hip with the Thai film industry where I find I either lover or hate the films, there is no rhyme or reason other than I dislike most Thai horror films I stumble upon on my own.Is Black Tiger worth seeing (or should that be trying?)? Hell yea. There is nothing like it for shaking the dust from the notion of all movies are the same. There is nothing like this I've ever seen in the west and very few in the east.

The spaghetti western, once home on the range to actors like Rex Harrison and Lex Barker, nearly wasn't – until they met Clint. In 1963 a burgeoning director named Sergio Leone was given $200,000, a load of old stock footage, and told to make a western. The result is branded in the annals of film history - Per un Pugno di Dollari -- A Fistful of Dollars. Soon every investor from Europe to the back lots was clamoring to revitalize the western. The horse was put to pasture by the mid-1970's, but it wasn't until 2005 and Brokeback Mountain that the horse was believed finally shot. Enter writer/director Wisit Sasanatieng, riding high in the saddle to revise the old style. "Fah talai jone – Tears of the Black Tiger". The Thai film was an instant cult hit, riding into the market like "Shanghai Noon" on acid. Sasanatieng shows homage to the greats that came before him with the flair of Leone and the violence of Sam Raimi.When Dum, a young peasant boy, falls in love with Rampoey, they vow that, whatever happens, they will one day be together. Ten years on Dum (voice over by Philip Hersh), is the notorious gang-member 'Sua Dum - Black Tiger' (Chartchai Ngamsan). When he is commanded to execute police captain Kumjorn (Arawat Ruangvuth) who has one last request that Dum explain to his fiancé how he died. Dum realizes that Kumjorn's fiancé is, in fact, Rumpoey. Will love win through? Or will the heavens strike the heart of the Thief one final time? The film is billed as a musical western, and on that it delivers, in spades. The costuming is over the top with color that deliberately sets it apart from its forefathers in American and Italian cinema, but the musical numbers are rousing and enjoyable. The film plays with Leone style, plodding through the standardized plot of a B-western, but suddenly switches gears to a Raimi-esquire blood and guts show. The cowboys carry 'might powerful weapons', including – ready – rocket launchers. Sasanatieng obviously places his tongue firmly in his cheek with this project, but the influence of, and reference to, western films is unmistakable."Tears" is Sasanatieng's first attempt at helming, originally released in 2000, and is to date his only award nominated/winning project. It was nominated for 3 Grand Prix awards and appropriately won the Dragons and Tigers Award at Vancouver. Following "Tears", the director took a few years off before coming back with "Citizen Dog" and "The Unseeable" in 2004 and 2006 respectively. He is currently working on a project in Singapore entitled "Armful", which is in pre-production.

The Black Tiger was so gorgeous! I kept having cardiac arrhythmia every time on screen.Unfortunately IMDb has no picture or listing for the actor involved, otherwise I would be contacting him to let him know that i am his NUMBER ONE FAN! a la Kathy Bates.....i thought that the movie itself was wonderful entertainment and that the scenes of the central protagonists indicated that this director is capable of some very poignant, serious work which i hope he goes on to explore. i am thinking particularly of the fight over the boats on the lake. i was quite gripped by this and found it very moving.i just hope that his next flick also stars my favourite actor....