1911 Revolution details
| Formats: | 15 DVD, Blu-ray |
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| Starring: | Simon Dutton, Jackie Chan, Bingbing Li, Winston Chao, Joan Chen, Jaycee Chan, Yu-Hang To, Wu Jiang, Shaoqun Yu, Jing Ning, Wenli Jiang |
| Directors: | Jackie Chan, Li Zhang |
| Genres: | Action/Adventure - Historical, Drama - Crime, World Cinema - Chinese |
| Studio: | SHOWBOX MEDIA GROUP |
| Original title | Xinhai Geming |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
1911 Revolution |
15 Feature | |
1911 Revolution - Bonus Features |
15 Bonus |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 35 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 19 Mar 2012 |
| Main languages: | Cantonese |
| Subtitles: | English |
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take away it is not
By chasckd (550 reviews) from Telford , 03 May 2012[Highly rated reviewer]
if you are interested in chinese history and can read very small writing very fast then you might enjoy this one if a bit more time was taken for people to understand what was being said and what was happening it would be good if it was redone with this in mind i would like to give it another go- Was this review helpful to you?
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(24)chinese tosh
By a customer , 13 Feb 2013This film is aimed at a chinese audience interested in their revolution in 1911. I hadn't the foggiest idea what was going on and who the characters were.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Technically good but not engaging
By gauche (5 reviews) , 04 Jan 2013I gave up half way through this film. It is in Chinese with English subtitles - but that is the least of its problems. It hops around so much from place to place and character to character that it is a) difficult to follow and b) difficult to feel any empathy for any of the characters because they are so poorly drawn. The subtitles are easy to read on my 47' TV, but the text screens that are meant to link the scenes are a) tiny print and b) not on the screen long enough to read. On the plus side, the technical aspects of the film (HD video, HiFi surround sound) are excellent - it's just a pity that I found it so difficult to engage with it.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Confusing but epic
By Robbiedjude (89 reviews) from Plymouth , 14 Nov 20121911 is an ambitious film but unfortunately its tackling such a big subject it comes across as a bit of a mess.
It introduces a bewildering array of characters all of who are introduced on screen but in writing so tiny its almost impossible to make out - if this seems like a minor quibble bear in mind this is also how they describe major historical events and they come so thick and fast that at one point I had no idea which side was advancing on which city.
If you are familiar with the 1911 revoloution (though I don't think many people are) you should follow it fine but if you are a casual viewer after an asian epic like me you will probably find it sadly lacking.- Was this review helpful to you?
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You will need binoculars & the pause button to read.
By CraigieBabie (8 reviews) , 07 Nov 2012This slow drama is hampered by huge chunks of minute writing periodically placed on screen - presumably to fill you in on what's going on - at the same time as fast dialogue subtitles are playing. This is a drama and not an action or war film and so it is heavy on dialogue, and I just couldn't see the huge chunks of info (on a 37' widescreen TV) so I lost the plot, got bored and tuned out.- Was this review helpful to you?
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A Satisfying historical epic for Jackie Chan
By CriticalMass (14 reviews) from England , 26 Oct 2012Jackie Chan demonstrates once again that he can act in a film that would seem to be quite heavy chinese propaganda if the english translations of all the subtitled historical notes that come on-screen are accurate. That's not to say its a bad film - there are some good set piece battle scenes and although the english/american parts are mostly hammed up as happens in quite a lot of chinese films (Ip Man 2 especially) its generally a satisfying and ultimately educational experience.- Was this review helpful to you?
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