For those who knew three-kingdom story will surely find this movie very interesting. Nevertheless, it would still grab any audience's attention who has no prior knowledge of the story. As a start, the story itself is very good and well told. Red Cliff starts in a perfect point, and builds up wonderfully onto it.
I'd say it has some degree of accuracy toward the original story -- quite high in fact. There are some scenes I noticed in which eliminate some details. This could be decided by the director due to some reasons. Even so, I'm sure no one would be bothered too much by it -- as I wasn't.
There was however a disappointment I felt during the movie. The war scenes. They seemed very dull. I mean, it's a war movie for Christ sake -- based on the greatest war story ever told! Why would someone ever contaminate this? Especially we're talking about John Woo who's on the seat.
All in all, I gave 7 out of 10. It's a great movie, great story, well chosen characters -- most of the actors/actresses suit the characters of each role. Maybe Woo can pay more attention to the war scenes for the next episode. It's your specialty mate. Don't ruin it!
R.
I'd say it has some degree of accuracy toward the original story -- quite high in fact. There are some scenes I noticed in which eliminate some details. This could be decided by the director due to some reasons. Even so, I'm sure no one would be bothered too much by it -- as I wasn't.
There was however a disappointment I felt during the movie. The war scenes. They seemed very dull. I mean, it's a war movie for Christ sake -- based on the greatest war story ever told! Why would someone ever contaminate this? Especially we're talking about John Woo who's on the seat.
All in all, I gave 7 out of 10. It's a great movie, great story, well chosen characters -- most of the actors/actresses suit the characters of each role. Maybe Woo can pay more attention to the war scenes for the next episode. It's your specialty mate. Don't ruin it!
R.