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Formosa Betrayed
Directed by
Adam Kane
R
2010
1h 43m
Action
,
Adventure
,
and more
6.1
33%
55%
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While unveiling a series of international conspiracies, an FBI agent is embroiled in a set of political intrigues.
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Cast of Formosa Betrayed
James Van Der Beek
Jake Kelly
Wendy Crewson
Susan Kane
John Heard
Tom Braxton
Will Tiao
Ming / Producer
Leslie Hope
Lisa Gilbert
Adam Wang
Lee
Henry Milton Chu
Wu
Kittipong Subthawonpan
Military Police #2
Adam Kane
Director / Producer
Charlie Stratton
Writer
Yann Samuell
Writer
Brian Askew
Writer
Nathaniel Goodman
Writer
David Allen Cluck
Producer
Formosa Betrayed Ratings & Reviews
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Joe Williams
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.
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
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.
Washington Post
Jen Chaney
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.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tirdad Derakhshani
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.
Moving Pictures Magazine
Annlee Ellingson
In general, the pacing of the action is sluggish. Moreover, stylistic flourishes are distracting rather than enhancing.
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
Jeff Meyers
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
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Actor/co-screenwriter/producer Will Tiao's heartfelt agitprop history-lesson about Taiwan is a tightly wound thriller that takes no prisoners.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Obviously heartfelt but somewhat stilted and disjointed.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Formosa Betrayed begins rather awkwardly, but ends by making a statement that explains a great many things.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
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 TV-cop-show drama.
Slant Magazine
Aaron Cutler
This is a lot of Graham Greene hugger-mugger, the tale of a rube who believes that he can do good abroad.
Boston Globe
Janice Page
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.
Los Angeles Times
Gary Goldstein
A mostly pedestrian political thriller whose basis in true events adds little to the film's excitement or entertainment value.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
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.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
This is an unabashedly pro-democracy message movie. Judged strictly as drama, it's pretty routine.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
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.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
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.
The Hollywood Reporter
Sheri Linden
Sometimes stilted procedural cuts to the chase to deliver a haunting history lesson.
Village Voice
Nicolas Rapold
Neither the investigation nor the suspense (hobbled by editorializing) have much impact; the movie, necessarily shot in Thailand, plays like secret-history tourism.
Boxoffice Magazine
Tim Cogshell
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 TV movie at best.
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