Critic Reviews
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Andy Webster, New York Times
"Revival" is a proud statement by an ascendant society. But it demonstrates that mainstream Chinese cinema can be as guilty of self-indulgent overstatement as anything out of the West.
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Maggie Lee, Hollywood Reporter
The highly-charged crowd scenes in which dissidents clash with authorities are staged with visual flair, conveying an exhilarating sense of self-empowerment which is the essence of revolution.
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Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
"Great Revival" is in many ways the very definition of propaganda - it even ends with an image of a waving flag - but "Revival" is too harmlessly flabby to be taken quite that seriously.
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Marsha McCreadie, Film Journal International
History of Chinese Communism drowns in data.
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Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru
Epic with production values and a terrific ensemble cast, but often bland and emotionally hollow.
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Cast
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Ye Liuas Mao Zedong -
Yuanzheng Fengas Chen Duxiu -
Yun-Fat Chowas Yuan Shikai
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Chen Changas Chiang Kai-Shek -
Li Qinas Yang Kaihui -
Kun Chenas Zhou Enlai
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