Review: Red Cliff

Movie Title: Red Cliff
Written by: John Woo, Chen Han, Sheng Heyu
Directed by: John Woo
Produced by: Terence Chang, Han Sanping, Lion Rock Entertainment, China Film Group
Starring: Tony Leung Chiu, Takeshi Kaneshiro, ...

Overview
This is a chinese epic movie based on the Battle of Red Cliffs and events during the end of Han dinasty. The story starts with Prime Minister Cao Cao that request for the Emperor's permission to launch a campaign against the warlord Liu Bei and Sun Quan in Southern China. Here the battle begins.

To get the full story, please Watch it!!! or at least read the plot from Wikipedia.

Opinion
This is a very very very fantastic movie. I love it so much. I was having goosebump from starting to the end of the show. In this movie every individual is so great, this is how Heroes are, I suppose. How the subordinate being so loyal to their leader (Zhao zhilong who rescue Liu Bei's family bravely), how the leader trust, care and protect their subordinates in their own way (Zhou Yu who take an arrow for Zhao zilong in battle field, Liu Bei who was weaving straw sandals for its troops for his own reasons), how coolheaded some of them even in crisis (Zhuge Liang who has been legend in the history for all his brilliant strategies and Guan Yu who has always been so strong yet wise enough to understand the importance of knowledge).

They remind me of nothing about the leader in 21st century? Should great leader and heroes appear only in that kind of situation?

All leaders, Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Zhao zilong, Zhou Yu, all have their own characteristics that make them respectful in their own way, but My favorites are Guan Yu and Zhuge Liang.

Among the three brothers (Liu Bei, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei), Guan Yu has been the coolest I think. He is as strong as Zhange fei, and He is as wise as Liu Bei. Where to find this combination. In the movie, there is a scene, where he teaches children to read. A child asks him "We have no food, what good is reading book?", and he calmly answers "when you grow up, you will find out that reading now will give you food later." Love this scene.

While Zhu geliang, despite the good looking of Takeshi Kaneshiro in this movie, he is really a man with wisdom, that looks through things that are unseen and handle them well. Above all, he is so down to earth with all he has in his head.

Akh!!! Love them all!!! It's a MUST Watch movie of the year! Waiting for the part two to come in January 2009.