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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 15, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 8, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 2, 2010

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.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 2, 2010

Formosa Betrayed, a ho-hum college history lecture about modern Taiwan awkwardly disguised as a political thriller, has its heart almost in the right place.

| Apr 1, 2010

Obviously heartfelt but somewhat stilted and disjointed.

| Original Score: C- | Mar 19, 2010

Formosa Betrayed begins rather awkwardly, but ends by making a statement that explains a great many things.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 18, 2010

Only viewers wondering if James Van Der Beek has finally outgrown "Dawson's Creek" will be at all satisfied by this dreadful police procedural that contains good history lessons and bad 온라인카지노추천-cop-show drama.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Feb 26, 2010

This is a lot of Graham Greene hugger-mugger, the tale of a rube who believes that he can do good abroad.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 26, 2010

As a political thriller, Formosa Betrayed has enough suspense and intrigue to pull viewers along willingly. It doesn't try too hard, which is refreshing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 26, 2010

A mostly pedestrian political thriller whose basis in true events adds little to the film's excitement or entertainment value.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 26, 2010

The movie is a sturdy entry in the paranoid-thriller genre, and raises some interesting issues about our relationship with the country we used to call China.

| Feb 26, 2010

This is an unabashedly pro-democracy message movie. Judged strictly as drama, it's pretty routine.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 26, 2010

Mostly, Formosa Betrayed seems a tedious excuse for lengthy tirades against Chiang Kai-shek delivered by the film's producer and co-writer, Will Tiao, who less than convincingly plays a Taiwanese activist.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Feb 26, 2010

The film is partly a tutorial on the tense relations among Taiwan (the island of Formosa), the Chinese mainland and the United States, and partly a clumsy cloak-and-dagger political thriller.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 25, 2010

Sometimes stilted procedural cuts to the chase to deliver a haunting history lesson.

Full Review | Feb 24, 2010

All the heartfelt references to the 228 Massacre and the White Terror don't make this any more thrilling than a Wikipedia entry.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 24, 2010

Neither the investigation nor the suspense (hobbled by editorializing) have much impact; the movie, necessarily shot in Thailand, plays like secret-history tourism.

| Feb 23, 2010

While it is captivating stylistically, and the primer on the China/Taiwan relationship is great fodder for political geeks, even in its deepest moments of intrigue and pathos this is a cable 온라인카지노추천 movie at best.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 16, 2010