The Beginning of the Great Revival

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wali k Despite what most critics here are saying, this film is an absolute must-see for any Chinese history buff, and definitely still an enjoyable watch for someone with a loose grasp of the history. I first saw it in 2019, with almost no understanding of the history, but I still liked it then. Now that I rewatched it only a few days ago, this time with a full understanding of the history of the time, I can assure that this is a great movie and one of the best I've seen in a long time. It definitely requires a little bit of understanding beforehand, though. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 05/13/23 Full Review Audience Member Review: What an epic movie! This film certainly looked great and the costumes and scenery is superb but I didn't have a clue about what was going on. I didn't know who was who or what was where. The small captions on the bottom of the screen and the subtitles didn't help and the different storylines just made the whole movie hard to follow. Its a shame, because the acting is great and the I did feel a sense of intensity throughout the film but it's hard to keep up with the epic, political concept which changed China forever. The director over complicated the concept and he even added a love story, so there is way too many things going on at once. It reminded me a lot of the Founding Of The Republic, which was also extremely hard to follow and I personally gave up watching after a while. They could have easily split this film into 2 movies, so the director could have concentrated on different elements of he storyline. Anyway, although it looks great, the storyline is all over the place and I personally lost the plot. Disappointing! Round-Up: After watching a few Oriental movies, I did recognise a few faces throughout this movie but I still found it hard to follow. The movie was directed by Sanping Han who also directed the confusing Founding Of The Republic with Jianxin Huang. Sanping Han has produced some top movies like Shaolin, Confucius, the great Let The Bullets Fly, the Karate Kid and Mission Impossible 3, so he's certainly got experience when it comes to big movies but he really did over complicate this one. I have to commend the directors on there efforts and the scale of this film, especially in terms the huge cast and the amazing cinematography but from an entertainment perspective, there is just too much to concentrate on. I recommend this movie to people who are into their history/dramas starring Chow Yun-Fat, Angelababy, Daniel Wu, John Woo, Andy Lau, Simon Yam, Chao Deng, Xun Zhou and Kun Chen. 3/10 Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member Propagandistic movie about the beginnings of the Chinese Communist Party. Too ambitious and packing too much in too short a time. Still, of historical interest. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Audience Member A quick rundown of the events leading to the formation of the communist party. Be careful history might be twisted a bit. Rated 1/5 Stars •  Rated 1 out of 5 stars 01/18/23 Full Review Audience Member A film that makes little effort to hide it's communist propaganda agenda. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member Aside from a host of HK heroes, this who's-who of Chinese cinema is for the history buffs only. As with its accompanying feature 'Founding of a Republic' the film is havy on drama with little scattered action scenes throughout, albeit great performances from all. I tried... Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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