Formosa Betrayed R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 43 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 13, 2010
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Screen Media
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | James Van Der Beek, Will Tiao, Kenneth Tsang, John Heard, Tzi Ma, Wendy Crewson & Leslie Hope | |
| Directed by | Adam Kane | |
| Screenwriting by | Brian Askew, Nathaniel Goodman, Yann Samuell & Charlie Stratton | |
| Composition by | Jeff Danna | |
| Story by | Will Tiao & Katie Swain | |
| Director of Photography: | Irek Hartowicz |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: C- --
When you hear dialogue like: "So, what do you know about the history of my country?" you know you're in for a whole lot of exposition
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Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Rating: 2/4 --
Formosa Betrayed is a history lesson dressed up as an action movie. The lesson is pretty interesting; the movie is just the far-fetched plot it hangs on.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 1/4 --
...a hopelessly uninvolving and thoroughly routine piece of work from start to finish...
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Reel Film Reviews
Rating: 2.5/4 --
The sturdy political thriller Formosa Betrayed is laudable for adding the voice of native Formosans to the usual two-sided debate that reaches the American media.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rating: 1.5/4 --
A movie that shows us the desperation and danger of living under martial law in Taiwan during the early '80s, yet somehow never delivers the emotional gut punch the subject matter deserves.
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Washington Post
Rating: 2.5/4 --
It's a passionate labor of love that pointedly criticizes the U.S. government's failure to recognize Taiwan as a sovereign nation, independent of mainland China.
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Seattle Times
Rating: C+ --
Formosa Betrayed works better as a history lesson than as a political thriller.
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Product Description:
An FBI agent investigating the murder of a Taiwanese-American professor becomes caught up in a vast international conspiracy while aiding the Taiwanese government in catching the killer. The murder took place in the U.S., but in order to investigate, Agent Jake Kelly (James Van Der Beek) will travel to Taiwan. Once there, he is partnered with American diplomat Susan Kane (Wendy Crewson) and Taiwanese official Kuo (Tzi Ma). From the moment Agent Kelly arrives on the island formerly known as Formosa, he is constantly reminded of his status as an outsider. Aided in his investigation by Taiwanese activist Ming (Will Tiao), Agent Kelly gradually uncovers a complex web of intrigue involving not only the Chinese mafia and the U.S. State Department, but the Republic of China as well.
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