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[williamjm]

I went to see Red Cliff at the cinema. Overall, I thought it was an entertaining film despite a few odd moments. The film is almost all in Chinese with English subtitles, which made it a bit disconcerting that the opening narration and another narration slightly later in the film were done in English by an American who sounded very much like the

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[peadarog]

Sounds like I might wait for the DVD! Thanks for the review.

[werthead]

Yeah, I was thinking of seeing this, but hearing about the editing thing made me realise I'd rather hang on for the (hopefully) complete DVD version.

[niamhotoole]

Some of the plot weaknesses might be explained by something I found out from IMDB afterwards - apparently the original Asian release is two 2-hour films, but the American/European release is single 2-and-a-half hour film allegedly because 'American audiences might be confused by four hours of Chinese names'. That 1.5 hours of the film have been removed might explain the low ratio of character development to action. I hope they release the full version for the DVD release, I'm curious to see what is missing.

You don't know how true this is (notwithstanding the fact I haven't watched it, I know how they terminally destroy every single good chinese movie out there for a laugh)
It's not due for release in Ireland anytime, which I'm really annoyed about as those chinese epics on dvd are like seeing the grand canyon on a postcard.