Released date: 17 July 2008
Running Time: 2 hr. 20 min.
Genres: Drama, War
Director: John Woo
Producer: Terence Chang, Han Sanping
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhang Fengyi, Chang Chen, Zhao Wei, Hu Jun, Lin Chi-ling
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In the early third century, the southland of Wu is invaded by the Prime Minister Cao Cao and his soldiers. The ruler of Wu, Sun Quan (Chang Chen), accepted the offer of rival warlord Liu Bei (You Yong) to join forces, but their two armies are still badly outnumbered against the 800,000 men Cao Cao lead. However, the strategists Zhou Yu (Tony Leung) and Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro) see that Cao Cao's army consists mostly of northern people which is not used to battling on the sea. With 100,000 men and far less battleships, it is up to Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang's ability to fight a seemingly losing battle for the sake of their lords.
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R-man said:
Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Guan Yu. I guess not many people in the world who never heard about this. If that's wrong, at least every chinese in the world should have heard about them one war or another. These are some of the main characters in China history that were brought life in this movie.
Red Cliff is one movie that people have been waiting for the longest time. Ever since the San Guo Yan Yu TV series, the popularity of this story has increased so much.
Statistics in Google confirms that people have been looking forward to this movie from 3 years ago.
This is a must-watch for Romance of the Three Kingdom fans. If you have vowed to watch only one chinese movie in one year, this has to be the one. This is the biggest budgeted asian movie to date with US$80million. With John Woo in command of a bunch of Asian superstars like Tony Leung, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Zhao Wei, and Hu Jun, there is no way you can go wrong watching this. The other San Guo movie picturing Andy Lau as Zhao Yun, that was released a few months before, can be taken as introduction to this main event.
The main characters are brilliantly portrayed to show their own supposed personal values and principles. The plot is not draggy and there is a good mix of battle scenes, serious talks and light jokes. One of scenes to remember is when both Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang play chinese string-based musical instruments with all the dynamicity. It is great music.
Rating:
(5 popcorns)
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