Articles in Mainland China Movie Reviews
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (2004) Movie Review
Chuan Lu’s “Mountain Patrol” is truly extraordinary in many ways, not least in the incredible real-life hardships endured by the cast and crew during the filmmaking process. The film was actually shot on location in the remote Hoh Kil (Kekexili) region, which lies across the borders of Western China, Tibet and Uygur, and is the [...]
December 10th, 2004 | James Mudge | 0 Comments | Read MoreZhou Yu’s Train (2002) Movie Review
Love drives human beings wild. Ever since the first two people fell in love, love has been full of equal parts splendor and monotony, passion and indifference, sanity and danger, and loyalty and treachery. Despite what love does — despite how attached we grow to one another or the challenges we face as a result [...]
December 7th, 2004 | Edward Lee | 0 Comments | Read MoreHouse of Flying Daggers (2004) Movie Review
Zhang Yimou, coming off “Hero”, his most internationally acclaimed and successful film to date, now brings us another martial arts epic set in ancient China. “House of Flying Daggers” stars Andy Lau (”Infernal Affairs”) and Takeshi Kaneshiro (”Returner”) as Leo and Jin, respectively, two Imperial underlings ordered to bring down a rebel group called the [...]
September 3rd, 2004 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreWarriors of Heaven and Earth (2003) Movie Review
If John Wayne was still alive and making movies about the divine might of the U.S. of A., he would probably make something like Ping He’s “Warriors of Heaven and Earth”, which is, in a nutshell, about the divine might of China. To be sure, “Warriors” is an entertaining movie first and historical film second; [...]
January 1st, 2004 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreXanda (2003) Movie Review
“South Park” once did an episode where they made fun of Sports Movie cliché, including the biggest clich’ of the genre, the inevitable Big Game (or Big Fight or Big Race, etc.). The second biggest clich’ is the Montage Sequence, where our hero achieves great strides in his chosen sport over a short period of [...]
December 25th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreHero (2003) Movie Review
Much of your ability to appreciate the finer points of Zhang Yimou’s “Hero” depends on your knowledge of Chinese culture and history. This doesn’t mean those of us completely unaware of the country’s monumental struggle to unite itself under one kingdom, or the zen-ish notion of swordsmanship as an art form rather than a martial [...]
January 29th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreSo Close to Paradise (1998) Movie Review
I must admit that the Chinese film “So Close to Paradise” surprised me. At first I found the film to be lacking and uninteresting and its acting to be spotty at times. But as the film progressed, its story drew me in, and its characters became people I could believe in and feel for. The [...]
December 9th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read More
It looks like a dud. I saw the trailer. Tom is the only person speaking with an American news network ...
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