Thursday, April 07, 2011

Quickie Film Reviews: Red Cliff (2008)

John Woo finally remembers how to make a decent film, in doing so upstaging Peter Jackson's The Two Towers and The Return of the King, but also remembering to include the requisite fight-while-holding-a-baby, Mexican standoff, and unnecessary flurry of white doves.

4 comments:

  1. This has been sitting on my shelf for months, but I can't seem to find the five hours necessary to watch it all :) One day...

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  2. Well, I did only watch the three-hour highlights version, but it rushed by, so enjoyable is the film.

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  3. Somehow I managed to luck out and find the "full" version - can't remember now if it was eBay or Amazon. Really must get round to watching it now.

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  4. The full version seems to be out of print, but is floating around for about a fiver online, so I'll be picking it up next payday.

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