Tuesday, February 15, 2011
FINALE
Today I watched the last 90 minutes of John Woo's
Red Cliff (2009)--The International Version
twice as long as the first film, comes in at 5 hours.
The good guys still won. I figured that they would.
I love this movie. It is full of "stuff". Very rich.
I particularly like Takeshi Kaneshiro who plays the strategist. No martial arts. Just watching and conjuring and supporting his good friend Tony Leung. Near homoerotic. Not quite. Almost.
That is Kanishiro up front in the image below.
By the end I was just about sated with battle scenes but the victory and the spoils were as fine to watch as the first time.
All in all, I am glad that I saw it again in the much longer version and, with that, I have had enough.
This movie is already a 5 out of Netflix5 and who knows? I might see it again in a few years.
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