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The fall of the last empire.
2011 · 1h 39m · R
Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Directed by
Jackie Chan
,
Zhang Li
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China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of the Qing Dynasty.
Top critics, in their words
The Revolution will not be televised, Gil Scott-Heron once sang. Nor should it be filmed, we might add -- at least not as a costume drama with stirring speeches, an inspirational love story and gloriously heroic military charges.
Earnest and studious to a fault. Rarely has a film about upheaval felt more like a textbook.
May be slow going for anyone not well-versed in this chapter of Chinese history.
Packed with so many characters and subtitled history lessons it barely allows its excellent main cast room to maneuver.
What should be rousing stuff - a republic is born! the chains of feudalism thrown off! - remains a kind of lavishly illustrated history lesson.
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