Kyra Sedgwick Movie:

		List Price: $9.98		Label: 20th Century Fox Salesrank: 63842 Released: June 1, 2004
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		MPAA Rating: R (Restricted) Media: DVD

Tai Pan Reviews:
Tia Pan
2009-12-15 - Bought this movie because i've read the book. It was ok, not one of my favorites. IF you are a fan of the time period then you will most likely enjoy this movie.

A decent film featuring good casting
2009-05-04 - "Tai-Pan" probably should have been a miniseries, given the complex, multifaceted nature of the James Clavell novel from which it derives. No matter, this film, while falling far short of telling the whole story contained in the book, still succeeds in being good entertainment. And it does manage to tell the broad strokes of Clavell's story -- the founding of Hong Kong and the bitter rivalry of the great British merchant houses that led to its establishment.

The casting in this film is unusually good, and the characterizations of the main players, Dirk Struan, Tyler Brock, their sons, May-May, are all very true to the book. In fact, even if the storyline is forced by the two-hour format to outrageously condense the novel's storyline, the characters are captured with extreme fidelity. The overall result is a film that is good, solid entertainment if perhaps not a masterpiece.

Those who have read the novel will have no difficulty appreciating this film and it is to them that it comes highly recommended.

Very disappointing...
2005-09-09 - After reading the book I was extremely disappointed by this poor attempt. I had the 'bad joss' of actually buying the dvd after reading the book. If you hadn't read the book the film would be truly incomprehensible, and if you read the book you would feel a tremendous void. As many other reviewers have said, Taipan needs to be reincarnated as a mini-series of some sort to afford it proper treatment.

Tai Pan/Noble House
2005-09-05 - Tai Pan is more than a chick flick or criticzing of Bryan Brown. It is a prelude to a very good mini series: Noble house! If you haven't seen Noble House you have missed an excellent journey thru banking & financing in the power people. P. Brosnan is the supreme smooth talker. Lots of intrigue & dirty tricks. If you haven't seen this one order it from Amazon!!

DANGER......DANGER Tai Pan fans
2005-08-26 - If you haven't read the book don't even think about watching this movie. If you have read the book be prepared to be disappointed.

Bryan Brown was terrible as Dirk Straun (and I don't mean just the accent), can anyone who read the book picture Kyra Sedgwick as "Hag" Straun (not even close), Janine Turner is wasted as Shevaun (did she say three sentences in the whole movie?), and Captain Orlov is straight out of comic book central casting, just to name a few atrocities!

The telling of the story is incomprehensible, the viewer never picking up -- let alone understanding -- the interplay between the characters or the motivation behind their actions (not even close). As with other Clavell novels, there is just too much going on behind the scenes to capture it all in a 120 minute movie. I would love to see the story told as Tolkien's Lord of Rings trilogy was told, three - three hour movies. Maybe someone can tempt Peter Jackson into tackling this as one of his major undertakings. One can hope!