Red Cliff

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Liam D John Woo’s return to Chinese cinema isn’t one of his greatest movies but it’s still very solid Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 12/16/24 Full Review Korra N Arguably John Woo's best film (easily the two-part uncut version), Red Cliff is a dazzling and gripping historical epic chock full of captivating performances, stunning cinematography and pulse-pounding action sequences. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/11/24 Full Review Good B The panning of the camera every second is distracting. Not only was it hard to be in the moment but it actually made me dizzy. Not to mention , you tripped a horse to get a shot for your terrible movie. John Woo reminds me of the film students at the Art Institute. Worth a skip, how does it have 90%? I really think the people that are writing good reviews are just as pretentious as this film. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 04/16/24 Full Review Alec B There's a lot of set-up for the main action set pieces of the second film but there are still compelling character dynamics and battles. Woo is mythmaking here, so it is best to view the movie in that vein. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/10/24 Full Review Jimmy P this is part one of two but should be seen as a whole. Watch part one and two together and it is a wonderful experience. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/20/23 Full Review William L "He knows how to lead an army, but he has no friends." Okay, I'm sure Cao Cao would be real embarassed if he was hanging out in the high school cafeteria commanding the imperial forces of 3rd century China. Red Cliff feels like John Woo was given a big budget but no real creative freedom; you've got his trademark doves and slow motion but they're each used in such strange ways, almost like they're obligatory to match audience expectations rather than genuinely interesting or fun. An enormous scale, impressive battle scenes, and fun fight choreography are strangely offset by weird character interactions and a plot that you could put on autopilot for long stretches. There are so many scenes intended to give off this sense of impressive military strategy or combat ability (observing changes in the wind, practicing swordplay, lots of strategy maps, whatever), enough that they run into each other and lose all signficance and begin to feel satirical. While the money seems to have flowed like a river on this project, it's massively bloated and uninspired, though there is still plenty of entertainment in the swordplay. This movie ends with a double rainbow for some reason. (2/5) Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 05/25/22 Full Review Read all reviews

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