harvey weinstein famously use to buy up foreign film and then would refuse to distribute them to american theater and thus reduce competition in the arthouses for the film he actually decide to release . tear of the black tiger be one of those film . now magnolia film get it away from him and have it available . it a thai western and with some of the weird and wild production design to be see . unfortunately and it doesn not live up to that amaze trailer that play the art house circuit back in january . while it certainly be a lot of fun in part and the pacing be poor and the story get so bogged down in romantic melodrama that at time it downright bore . still and those fun part make it worth sit through . when the sergio leone esquire violence begin and it always entertain . and it have a couple of the best movie death ever .