Rotten
[It] has quite a lot to recommend it. But it also has a few glaring flaws that detract from it being stellar action fare.
Bruce Demara, Toronto Star
The Taking of Tiger Mountain
2014 · 2h 21m · NOT RATED
Adventure, Thriller, War
Directed by
Tsui Hark
Overview
Yang Zirong disguises himself as a bandit to infiltrate and destroy a bandit group. He joins hands with a hostage, and together, they fight against the warlord, Hawk.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
69%
Tomatometer
Rotten
With its fanfare score, the movie has a nationalistic, didactic flavor and a tiresome devotion to spectacle. Even the climax is staged two ways.
Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times
Fresh
Its slow-going opening stretch and assorted mawkish subplots might just be the price a viewer has to pay for the sight of Yang and Hawk slugging it out in a biplane as it careens down a seemingly endless escape tunnel ...
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club
Fresh
This account of the People's Liberation Army's strategic ambush of a bandits' lair delivers sinewy battles and twisty espionage with a husky northern flavor.
Maggie Lee, Variety
Rotten
So when Tsui revises and redoes the climactic showdown for the sake of entertainment value, you wonder if the Hong Kong-based filmmaker writes off the whole thing as revisionist history written by victors.
Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times
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