20 Apr, 2009 in Chinese culture, Movie reviews by Fili An Tags: movie; red cliff; review; the battle of red cliff; three kingdoms; zhou yu; zhuge liang;

The Battle of Red Cliff Chinese Movie : Absolutely Perfect

The Battle of Red Cliff (part 1 and part 2) is absolutely brilliant. Perfect. To me – it’s as good as it gets. There aren’t many films that I leave with an incredible "WOW" effect, but this one did it … twice.

The Battle of Red Cliff Movie : Absolutely Perfect

John Woo did a superb job. It’s been over 2 months since I’ve seen the second part of Red Cliff and I still remember most of it in great detail, constantly looking up more info on Zhu-ge Liang and Zhou Yu, reading about the three kingdoms and asking my Chinese friends what they know about that time of history and what they thought of the movie. If you’re even slightly interested in anything remotely related to Chinese culture and history, most chances you will enjoy this as much as I did.

 

The grand strategy battle between iconic master-minds. History is sometimes larger than any fiction. Go see it.

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  • I bought it a while back after being very much impressed by the trailer but haven't found the time watch it yet.

    Most of the Chinese people I know are like LOTR fans when it comes to this movie - they say the movie is still good but the story was changed too much to their taste.
  • RanE - ^_^ Well, it's perfect but not without flaws :P . The Japanese guy casted has horrible Mandarin, the Taiwanese girl can't really act very well, and some of the historical facts are questionable (were Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu such good friends? probably not). Still, I've been told by some of my Taiwanese friends that this movie does a much better job than most TV dramas made on the period so far, historical accuracy issues included.
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