In 208 A.D., in the Han Dinasty of China, the tyrannic and greedy Prime Minster Cao Cao forces the reluctant Emperor Han to declare war against the kingdoms of Liu Bei and Sun Quan in the South of China. Cao Cao heads with a mighty army of one million soldiers and attacks Liu Bei. His advisor and war strategist Zhuge Liang heads to South in a diplomatic mission trying to convince Sun Quan to join force with Liu Bei against the powerful warlord. When Zhuge Liang meets the viceroy Zhou Yu, he succeeds in his assignment with the alliance of the two kingdoms against Cao Cao. The armies fight against each other in many battles until the final one in Red Cliff where guile, knowledge and strategy prevail.
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao Cao convinced the fickle Emperor Han the only way to unite all of China was to declare war on the kingdoms of Xu in the west and East Wu in the south. Thus began a military campaign of unprecedented scale, led by the Prime Minister, himself. Left with no other hope for survival, the kingdoms of Xu and East Wu formed an unlikely alliance. Numerous battles of strength and wit ensued, both on land and on water, eventually culminating in the battle of Red Cliff. During the battle, two thousand ships were burned, and the course of Chinese history was changed forever.
A great mass-scale warfare movie. This movie pits a smaller force against a vastly larger force, and of course tactical genius and gorilla warfare is the cement that builds this story. The battle-tactics used in this movie are really impressive and I've never before seen anything like it (and I've watched many warfare movies). The instructions that the commanders yell out really see the direction of the story change. I also like that they used a few female warriors in the movie, because it's too often that you see 'all male casts' and women only running for the hills. You do however see the traditional "godlike protagonists" where a single hero kills 50+ warriors, but that is understandable. In the non-dubbed version of the movie, the actors were very passionate and you could see truly heartfelt acting. This is a really good warfare movie, full of action, 7/10.
Seems like US$80MM still went a long way in China back in &#39;08, especially if the 1500+ PLA extras (and their CGI clones) weren&#39;t even working for scale. The medieval tale the film&#39;s based on has been called &quot;the Chinese Iliad,&quot; and there are definitely some similarities—the baddie, Cao Cao, chief minister to a puppet emperor, starts a war b/c, among other things, he covets a rival official&#39;s wife, &quot;the most beautiful woman in the world,&quot; and the big battle scenes mainly consist of the alphas on both sides hacking their way through swarms of enemy troops until they come face to face. (The Helen of Troy character&#39;s so confident of her powers of distraction that she turns up, alone, at Cao Cao&#39;s HQ on the eve of battle.)<br/><br/>The spectacle, of course, is all that it should be—the fortresses and stockades, the massed troop formations, Cao Cao&#39;s flotilla of virtual warships that stretches to the horizon…. There&#39;s also a lot of the kind of filler you&#39;d find in an old-school Hollywood epic (or a vintage Soviet film like &quot;Aleksandr Nevsky&quot;)—PG love scenes, coy romance and comic-relief characters, in this case a loud, whiskery general, a feisty warrior princess and a goofy enemy soldier she falls in love with. <br/><br/>Tony Leung, as always, has tremendous presence, and Takeshi Kaneshiro is effective as the Chief Strategist, a legendary sage who invents a rapid-fire crossbow and does some Taoist weather witching that&#39;s crucial to the outcome; most of the human interactions in the film that don&#39;t involve combat are fairly stagy and uninvolving, but their edgy bromantic friendship is really quite charming. <br/><br/>Part I of the complete version is a bit slow-moving, and some of the Sun Tzu–style military trickery (reflective shields that dazzle the enemy horses… ) seems way over the top, but Part II really gathers momentum as it moves toward the final battle. To put it in Western fanboy terms, if Part I&#39;s &quot;The Hobbit,&quot; then Part II&#39;s almost in the same class as &quot;The Return of the King.&quot; <br/><br/>Did I mention that the complete release is almost five hours long? Available on two disks from Netflix.
Red Cliff exudes a physical grandiosity that few movies of the past 20 years have attempted–no matter that Woo, even at his best, is still more at ease with down-and-dirty action than epic pageantry.
Due to the Cinematograph Films (Animals) Act 1937 scenes containing violence to animals have to be cut in the UK. Therefore both versions, the international cut and the original cut - both available on DVD in the UK - were censored accordingly. You can find a comparison between the cut international version (UK) and the uncut international version here. and a comparison between the cut original version (UK) and the uncut original version here. In order to make the whole project much more attractive for international audiences, an International Version was created, that features both Red Cliff movies cut into one movie. Producer Terence Chang said the following: &quot;We wanted to make a Hollywood blockbuster in Chinese that would appeal to non-Asian audiences as well. We worked very hard to create a version of the film that maintains the integrity of the action and character development of the story, while excising some of the cultural details that could be considered unnecessary for Western audiences not intimately familiar with the historical mythology.&quot;
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