从中国人的眼光看《赤壁》是一部很烂的电影
Battle of Red Cliff, the Movie
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vesicles
Colonel
You are being too generous. I would give 0 star. It's a complete mess. I don't know wrote the screen play. They managed to completely destroy the original story, which is very fascinating on its own, and came up with a total garbage.
It's a typical B-movie. A lot of cheesy stuff. It took a lot of patience and swearing for me to finish the movie. I was in a bad mood that whole day after watching that movie. BAD BAD BAD!!
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bladerunner
Banned Idiot
Basically, if you take this show as nothing but a no-brain action movie (with good looking actors and actresses) that happen to share the same name to historical event, then I guess it is just passable (with the emphasis on JUST)... but if you want it to be reference to actual event or scene from Romance of the Three Kingdom novel... then this movie is going into the dustbin...
vesicles
Colonel
I second that!!!
Even considering the movie as a stand-alone Hollywood movie, I feel it is at most a B-movie. The performance was simply bad. You can clearly tell that they are acting and trying to look cool. In nowhere in the movie, I feel emotionally attached to any of the characters. All I wanted to do was laugh and half of the time, I was staring at the bottom of the screen so that I didn't have to look the actors' faces. I guess Woo wanted to emphasize his brotherhood theme again. There was a lot of one-on-one between Zhuge Liang and Zhou Yu. It was so gay and cheesy. It looks like Zhuge Liang had a serious crush on Zhou Yu.
Story line was also cheesy at best. Many places were simply illogical. Scenes were put in at the wrong time in the wrong places. Zhou Yu ran out to fix a boy's flute while leaving his men unattended during an important exercise amid incoming war and potential invasion. Is this how a general should treat his men? So unprofessional... In the end, Cao Cao was captured and eventually let go. It makes sense for Liu Bei. At least in the novel, it does. Also , we, the loyal followers of Zhuge Liang, don't want to think that Zhuge Liang actually made a mistake in letting Guan Yu guarding the last pass. So we came up with the explanation that Zhuge Liang intentionally let Cao Cao go in order to force Sun Quan to maintain the alliance. This way, he and his boss would not be killed immediately after the battle. This at least is logical. In the movie, Sun Quan was there Cao Cao was caught. Why would he let Cao go? He could go ahead and kill Cao and the whole China was his for the taking. It was the dumbest move ever.
The action was contorted and fragmented. This was caused by Woo wanting to add in his "slow-mo action". All the slow-mo and single man actions caused the sequences to be seriously fragmented.
If I can find one word to sum it up, it would BAD. I will not watch another Woo movie.
I've seen the new trailor of the new TV series "3 Kingtoms" and it looks much better than the movie...
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