The Resistance

2011 "In a time of war, when an invasion turns to genocide, a peasant girl must choose between death or The Resistance"
The Resistance
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Released: 10 November 2011 Released
Producted By: Xenon Pictures
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Official Website: http://www.xenonpictures.com/theresistance/
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In 1937, Japan began their invasion of China by murdering over 300,000 people in the capital of Nanjing. The atrocities committed against women and their daughters are especially barbaric. One of them is Xiaoyun, a peasant girl who fights with the Chinese resistance group. On her way to freedom she must fight against Japanese soldiers, ninjas, a killer geisha, Nazis, and the evil General of the Japanese imperial army.

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jfbneko This movie is quite ridiculous, historically absurd and pure Chinese Communist regime propaganda. Intended to fan the flames of the fire of hatred they've promoted for years, to distract the population from the atrocities committed against their own people by the PRC authoritarian regime.
Regina Xu I love this filmTrue Chinese spiritA sad story, with a tragic heroine, who became a member of the resistance, then later become ninja fighter to revenge her people!She challenge ninjas, soldiers, killer geisha, and a tattooed general who is a friend of the Nazis!Sadly, the story is inspired by a true event of Nanking massacre during 1937, but despite the movie is an action entertaining movie, it also keep it focus on the tragedy plot.That's why Xiaoyun is my heroine, she is part of the tragedy, because of this horrible event she lost everything, now to prevent this event to spread she must become fighter. And she does do what she must to protect the innocent even if it means to become a murderer herselfI give full score to this film, I love it...
biffthecanadian The Resistance is an epic China film about greed, revenge, hate, and a year of mankind darkest hour of war.Directed by the former Shaolin monk turned actor/director Peng Zhang Li also known for Last Kung Fu Monk, the movie is starred Chinese actress Hu Sang as the films heroine Xiaoyun.The Plot: 3 years after the World War II has begun, some parts of China is occupied by the Japanese army. General Takeshi (Peng Zhang Li) has taken control over the south east of China near the coast, there his soldiers have miss treated the people of the small town Shichen. One day a hero known as "Black Dress Killer" arrive to this small town and rescue a young girl from a rape attempt of four Takeshis soldiers. By killing all four soldiers, the hero send a message to General Takeshi, due to the reputation of the black dress killer has already murder 1500 Japanese soldiers in the province that Takeshi control. Worried about this, Takeshi warn people of Shichen to reveal who is the real killer or his men will destroy the town within one week. Meanwhile a group of Chinese resistance plan to rescue an American journalist from Japanese prison camp. One of them is Xiaoyun, a young peasant girl who lost her family due to Takeshis occupation, she swear to avenge her family even if it means losing her own life.US DVD vs UK DVD: When the the Resistance had premiere in USA it made success, but in UK the movie flopped, and after viewing both DVD's I can say that the US DVD is better then the UKs, for starters the CGI is better done in the US DVD, it looks more realistic and make this movie look epic and is more justice for the film, the U.K. DVD has different opening then the US DVD and CGI is different from the US DVD, also the USA DVD the colour of the film is brown grey scaled, in UK DVD the colour is blue grey scaled and some times in the memory flash scenes the colour is green grey scaled, the USA DVD makes this film look more beautiful and realistic and artistic, if the UK audience want to give the movie a justice view, they should see the American DVD.My opinion As a movie, the Resistance doesn't fail to entertain me, it has cool ninja fights and beautiful locations, and a very exiting story to follow, not a typical war movie though, but a history movie set in WWII and mix it with classic Japanese Shinobi actionI give it 6/10 just for both versions, but if US version only I would give it 8/10, and I recommend to watch the US DVD of the film, one of the greatest movies from Mainland China
grandmastersik Let's put it this way: if you paid €1 for this film, you'll feel robbed.After the competent introduction using stock footage, the film begins proper with god-awful CGI blood and it's not a good sign. The "acting" then kicks in and, along with the poor dialogue, cheesy music and cheap setting, this has "low budget trash" written all over it.Now, where I've nothing against low budget films, I do have plenty against bad films, and am I really going to waste another 80-odd minutes of my life on something so thoroughly terrible, or am I going to turn it off 10 minutes in and warn others not to even bother with it?So, not much of a "review" for this, but more of a warning. Hopefully, this helps.