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Red Cliff
2009
After directing stylish action films such as THE KILLER and FACE-OFF, director John Woo turns to Chinese history for inspiration with RED CLIFF. The Han Dynasty is facing its death in third century China, and the emperor raises a million-man army against two kingdoms that are hopelessly outmatched. This war film stars Tony .. Read more
| Starring | Chen Chang, Yong Hou, Jun Hu, Tong Jiang |
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| Director | John Woo |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, World Cinema |
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Red Cliff
After directing stylish action films such as THE KILLER and FACE-OFF, director John Woo turns to Chinese history for inspiration with RED CLIFF. The Han Dynasty is facing its death in third century China, and the emperor raises a million-man army against two kingdoms that are hopelessly outmatched. This war film stars Tony Leung, the beloved actor best known for LUST, CAUTION and IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.
| Starring | Chen Chang, Yong Hou, Jun Hu, Tong Jiang, Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Chiling Lin, Shido Nakamura, Jia Song, Chun Sun |
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| Director | John Woo |
| Studio | ENTERTAINMENT IN VIDEO |
| Run time | DVD: 2 hrs 11 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 28 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Drama, World Cinema |
| Released | DVD: 05 Oct 2009 Blu-ray: unknown Production year: 2009 |
| Format | DVD |
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28 out of 28 people found this review helpful
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This is an amazing film
It's a film of loyalty war spying love deception ambition strategy friendship.
See it on a big screen with 5.1 sounds in blu ray.
I highly recommend it.
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- Chantal
- Posted 15 Apr 2009 20:52
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Great battle scenes
Found the trailers very annoying at start you cant fast forward etc so your stuck watching 20min of boring trailers.
Film was ok, battle scenes were great. Think i would of enjoyed film more if wasnt subtitled throughout, subtitles were really small so found it hard at times to stay with the plot -
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Red Cliff
- 15 Jun 2009
A mere slip of an epic at 146 minutes (you think I’m kidding, but I watched the original two-part, five-hour Asian-market version), John Woo’s first Chinese film in nearly two decades is both a triumphant homecoming and too much of a good thing. When Woo went to Hollywood in the run up to the handover of Hong Kong in the early 90s he was riding the crest of a wave: hyper romantic urban thrillers like The Killers, A Better Tomorrow and Hard Boiled had earned him a reputation as the... Read more
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Red Cliff - BLU-RAY Version
After directing stylish action films such as THE KILLER and FACE-OFF, director John Woo turns to Chinese history for inspiration with RED CLIFF. The Han Dynasty is facing its death in third century China, and the emperor raises a million-man army against two kingdoms that are hopelessly outmatched. ...
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Red Cliff
After directing stylish action films such as THE KILLER and FACE-OFF, director John Woo turns to Chinese history for inspiration with RED CLIFF. The Han Dynasty is facing its death in third century China, and the emperor raises a million-man army against two kingdoms that are hopelessly outmatched. ...
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