![]() The directors (I think there were six) depict the true atrocity of war. What is striking from the outset is the scenario. It needs to be viewed in that fashion - and the fact that it has already taken almost $900m at the box office should serve as a salutatory lesson that the our version of history is going to start getting a whooping now and again! This particular story tells of a regiment of the Chinese "Volunteer" Army tasked with arresting the US Marine corps' advance through Korea. This is just a Chinese effort at one such jingoistic pieces of cinema. Usually one or two heroic types defeating thousands of well entrenched, heavily armed types to save the day. The West has been turning out these sort of gung-ho propaganda pieces for almost one hundred years. Then I looked and saw that the US-domestic rating is much lower than the average. ![]() ![]() Though not without it's flaws, this film, I couldn't quite understand why the rating was so low.
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