It's A.D. 208 China. Rival states Shu and Wu join hands against their common enemy, the evil and ambitious General Cao Cao of the Wei kingdom, but are seriously outnumbered by his million-strong army. But with the charismatic leadership of Gen. Zhou Yu (Tony Leung), the perfect strategy of scholar Zhuge Liang (Takeshi Kaneshiro), and the support of emperor Sun Quan (Chen Chang), they manage to declare a small victory. While Cao Cao scoffs at this as no big deal, it adds fuel to his fury.

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  Three Featured Movies #3

  Writer Skye goes over his three feature movie picks of the week.

  • Oct 8, 2012

• Jul 14, 2012 1 of 1 episodes seen

  Ice_Cream
  5 of 5 people found this review helpful
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  • Overall  10
  • Story  10
  • Acting/Cast  10
  • Music  9
  • Rewatch Value  10

  This is the first part of the two part Red Cliff saga directed by John Woo.
  
  This movie is a masterpiece, the battle scenes are epic and in particular, the choreography of the Yinyang/Tortoise formation was awesome and the high expectation for the final battle is something to look forward to but that will be in the second part of the movie. I loved all the war scenes in both movie.
  
  The overall plot of the Red Cliff saga is similar to the American movie Troy, a host of invading army lead by an ambitious but love struck general will try to conquer 2/3 of China because of a girl. This first part covers the forming of the alliance of the 2 neighboring countries, and shows of human frailties and strengths of the defending leaders.
  
  The cast were likewise outstanding, especially Takeshi Kaneshiro as the strategist who have a little knowledge of a lot of things.
  
  Rewatch value is 10, well worthy of a second viewing. read more

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  The Warlords

  Both are great Chinese action movies that have terrific war scenes.

  reportRecommended by Skye-N-Rain