Red Cliff whole movie review best action movie of all time ?
Movie kicks off with an evil power hungry Prime Minister Cao Cao manipulating the weak willed Emperor Han into going to war against the two remaining realms of Xu and Wu. Both Xu and Wu team up to defeat Cao Cao using incredible strategies and military cunning, culminating in one almighty battle were thousand of ships are burn at sea and the legend of Red Cliff starts
Hats of to John Woo he’s created one of the best action movie(chinese action movie that is) that ticks all the right buttons for action junkies, the battle scenes are incredible and very well edited. Some CGI is used but it does not deflect from the flow of the story unlike some hollywood action movies. There is also some wire work involved but again like the CGI its not overly used. Onto the acting which varies a bit to be honest, the two principal characters Zhou Yu played by Tony Leung Chiu Wai (Hard Boiled) and Sun Quan played by Chen Chang both put in fine performance.
For it being a realistic version of what was supposed to have happened I’d leave it to people who have read in detail about the Three Kingdom era to make that judgement, I’m just looking at it from an action movie point of view.
I have been a life long fan of John Woo from his early comedies to his martial arts movies Last Hurrah for Chivalry and Hand of Death, it was great to see John Woo rise again after the mess that was Mission Impossible 2 and Windtalkers not too mention the God awful Paycheck.
This is equally in the top 10 action movies for 2008 / 2009.