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MASS MAYHEM

Today's movie was John Yoo's

Red Cliff (2008)—Theatrical Version

This is a wonderful film. Amazing. Cast of thousands. Immense vistas. Glorious battles. Engaging characters. A buddy movie. An exploratory of moral issues. An incredible display of martial arts and the cinematography surrounding them.

This lasts 2 and a half hours and that is half the length of the actual film, shown internationally.

I loved it.

I want more.

One of the heroes, Takeshi Kaneshiro, looks like Justin Timberlake.

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Made in China, it seems to spare no expense in showing the clash of great powers.

There is some neat "magic" which, at the time seem to be miraculous, but we can see it as just good science, weather forecasting.

I liked this so much that I have ordered up the five hour version in my queue. It is at the end of the present line up of 136 films, live. There are 243 in the "not issued as yet" queue.

This means that I will come to the big version in 25-30 weeks. Just long enough to be caught up again fresh. "They" say that the long version is much more elaborate and rich with character and plot turns.

Yet, there are no holes in the shortened film.

This is my second 5 out of Netflix5 this year.

Wow.

This is the "turtle" defense for when you are vastly outnumbered which, for these good guys, is almost all the time. There are many other tricks as well. All great to watch.

Labels: films