Sure, this movie doesn't make a lot of sense, but if you're looking for subtly rendered characters and a restrained, coherent narrative, then see a Yasujiro Ozu film instead. This is decadent filmmaking at its finest. Ever the visual stylist, Tsui Hark and his camera go where no one has gone before, whizzing behind flying bullets and inside explosions. His characters swing from TV antennae, blaze guns from clothing lines, and wrest grenade-bearing villains of their armaments. Tsui's images are always arresting, driving the movie's plot at a break-neck speed. Time and Tide is littered with such pungent images as a flying newborn, a machine gun battle on rappellent cords, and a woman in labor squeezing off a few rounds at the baddies. Time and Tide is a wild kinetic ride by the grand poobah of Hong Kong action spectaculars.