Awful...just awful...


I found myself cringing throughout the whole movie. Horrible editing, mixed acting (good in some places, abysmal in others), poor writing, just bad overall.

The parts of the film where English is spoken need to be discarded entirely, they're a joke. The VO's usually don't match the mouth movements or the subtitles (Yes, the version released in the USA has subtitles for the parts in which English is spoken...sadly, you need the subtitles, not only because the accents are sometimes hard to understand, but because sentence structures are butchered and words are out of place).

Something funny: the DVD (at least the one I got from Red Box) "Behind the Scenes" special feature didn't have things that you'd normally expect, like meaningful interviews. It just showed 30 minutes worth of footage shot with a different, low quality camera. No mics, no production value or editing to speak of, just low quality recording of what you saw in the movie from a different vantage point.

The movie isn't worth watching. It was horribly made and wasn't even very informative. Poor quality Chinese propaganda is all you'll get. Watch Rush Hour again, you'll be happier.

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I just saw the movie and I have to ask: Propaganda of WHAT?

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Of the Chinese Government.

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I agree. It was just a complete mess and poorly executed. I lost interest about midway in the movie and actually fell asleep. The problem I have is, many movies coming from China as of late have been taking on the same formula. Poorly executed and they try to cram Chinese nationalism into any little crack that they can. I really don't like when 90% of the movie scenes are all cut in 30 second increments and bounce around to different parts of the universe in a manner of three minutes. Not to mention, expecting you to know EVERYTHING that's going on within the five seconds they literally dump on you (almost every scene) in that ever so helpful tiny white text. Didn't care about what was going on and didn't care about the characters.

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