The patriotic sloganeering will likely leave many viewers cold, but this Chinese movie can be enjoyed as a work of bonkers battle action. No one in the high-profile cast, which… includes Zhang Hanyu, Oho Ou and Huang Xuan, gets much more than a sketch to work with, sapping the story of any real emotional connectivity. It’s straight-up propaganda – almost comedically so at times. It’s like Michael Bay’s “Pearl Harbor” but for the Chinese – same jingoistic celebration of militarist carnage but, instead of white gaze, we get communist homilies. Its perverse take on the American soldier as being a sadist is not only ridiculous but insulting.įor all the money spent and pyrotechnics unleashed, this collectively directed and filmed movie about the glory of collective effort and suffering in attaining military success never attains the grandeur it strives for. This repetitive depiction of a crucial battle in the Korean War does not earn its nearly three-hour running time. The Battle at Lake Changjin is a very bloated war movie filled with simplistic dialogue, poorly written characters, and tedious fight scenes. The main value of the film, or the only one, it is in making us reflect on the thousand and one times that we have swallowed equally nauseating rhetoric… courtesy of Hollywood. A 175-minute war orgy that combines violence, epic absurdity and stale nationalism in the form of a solid propaganda film that does not try to hide its nature.
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