Full River Red

A fluent model drama

It's a great combination of Chinese traditional theater (first 2 hrs) and western drama (last 0.5h). Yes the title poem is known by every Chinese school child. In the course of the movie it turns from comedy to tragedy and ends with a debate: to kill or not to kill, to love your country or the court. Excellent cinematography, great acting. A must see. Fun fact: the movie topped China box office over another Nationalist film during Chinese New Year, which surprised many people, thus brought a feast of network violence. They even come here to give low rate.

A little longer than it needed to be, but all in all a great film through and through

This is a terrible movie. The positive critical reviews for this movie are confounding. Incomprehensible plot, casually brutal violence without purpose (this is supposedly a comedy?), mugging and overlong expository dialogue instead of acting and actual storytelling, and no point of view (I didn't feel like rooting for ANY of the characters). The payoff for sitting through almost three hours of this dreck is the recitation of the title poem, which celebrates eating the flesh and drinking the blood of China's enemies (I'm not kidding). The only way I can make sense of this movie's popularity and its positive reviews is that Chinese authoritarianism has already taken over the world.

BEST FOR A LONG TIME

superb acting and cinematography incredible story

What a horrible movie

This is a real bad movie！

it is a good movie，Full of sense of humor.

A great movie! Spiritual inheritance is more important than life and death, it's the most priceless gift you can pass on to your children and next generation.