paulclaassen An epic masterpiece! From the acting to the music, photography and visuals. An all-round incredible production and an instant favorite! The film never ceases to amaze! The action sequences are absolutely fantastic, and the war fighting scenes were breathtakingly good!

muons This is basically of the same genre of 70's silly Kung fu movies which were produced by kilos for brainless audience, albeit with an inflated budget and -of course lots and lots of computer animation which will make you puke.The acting is theatrical and too pretentious. They can't even act a still dead person convincingly enough. The plot is paper thin to the level of non-existence. The character development is a bad cartoon job. The war scenes are utterly silly and unrealistic looking more like unedited cuts from cheap video games. Thousands of warships on the river stick out too much as an amateur computer animation. The final straw is the scene about several generals slashing each others' throats while troops look on peacefully on the sidelines... This is beyond ludicrous.The whole project looks less of a history movie based on a true story than a regressive glorification of war which would certainly serve well in 30's Nazi Germany but too primitive if not childish in today's norms.

bbickley13-921-58664 This movie was epic. Everything about it screams enormous.What I find interesting about Chinese cinema is that most of their epics especially their "blockbusters" are never about fictional characters. They are about real Chinese heroes who are made into legend through stories and film.The movie is long. So long Peter Jackson was even like hold up man. I had to watch it it three pieces.But it's worth it to get an epic 25 min war battle.And It's a John woo film. No wonder the action scenes are so well done.The Movie makes more room for the action of the strategies of the war rather that talking through out. That works for me as a foreigner.Definitely worth seeing, but you have to shelf some time to do so.

ebiros2 What's missing from this movie are the character development of all the villains and heroes.Red Cliff is the climax of the first half of "The Romance of Three Kingdoms", and if you read the story, there are lots of character development that went in to flesh out the personalities of each of the characters leading up to this point. Without it, the viewers will have no idea about who the characters are, because the explanations are completely missing from this movie.It's assumed that you have great familiarity with this story already going into the movie theater.For this reason, for westerners who are not familiar with this story, it will be difficult to understand what the premise of the story is, and the importance of each of the characters.So, while the movie is exciting, it might turn into just another action movie.The real story of Red Cliff is in part 2 of this movie. Part 1 is like the prequel to the war that leads up to the great battle of Red Cliff.That being said, the movie is a great masterpiece in that characters are so well presented, and formulated. People who are familiar with the story will not be disappointed, watching the movie.John Woo's did a masterful job of translating the story and bringing the characters into the big screen. If the story of Red Cliff was to be made into a movie, this is the way it should be done.