Beginning of the Great Revival

June. 23,2011      
Rating:
3.1
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A chronicle of the events that led to the founding of the Chinese Communist Party.

Andy Lau as  Cai E
Chow Yun-fat as  Yuan Shikai
Nick Cheung as  Liang Qichao
Daniel Wu as  Hu Shi
Tony Leung Ka-fai as  Fan Yuanlian
Liu Ye as  Mao Zedong
Chen Kun as  Zhou Enlai
Chang Chen as  Chiang Kai-shek
John Woo as  Lin Sen
Li Qin as  Yang Kaihui

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Reviews

ThiefHott
2011/06/23

Too much of everything

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Glucedee
2011/06/24

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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Dirtylogy
2011/06/25

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

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Zandra
2011/06/26

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Dr_Mark_ODoherty
2011/06/27

With an ensemble of fine actors, this movie offers a nice historical background of China. This movie also made me understand why the majority of Chinese people during that time had probably some gratitude to the founders of the Chinese Communist Party, who - to a certain extent - succeeded to bring unity and political stability, which China needed badly during that time. However, I have my doubts if Mao Zedong was really such a humble and gentle soul, being 100% committed to fidelity and monogamy as depicted in the movie. However, if the Chinese Communist Party insists on depicting Mao Zedong as a saint, I am prepared to swallow that, and whatever other divine virtues the Chinese Communist Party wants to attribute to Mao Zedong. The movie also emphasizes how important the student movement was for the CCP, and how important students are in general for the development of China - which is blatantly inconsistent with today's policy of the CCP; the Chinese Communist Party having succeeded to virtually ban the topic of student movement in today's China. I can understand that the 89' Tiananmen Square Massacre complicates this topic - especially as hardliners of the Chinese Communist Party are primarily to blame for this atrocity against Chinese students - but all the more reason that this needs to be addressed and resolved in China; including an apology by the Chinese Communist Party, which is still lacking.

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nkwleeds
2011/06/28

Great struggle! What an impressive movie with great casts. The actors and actresses have done well. The movie was filled with lots of suspense. Chow Yun Fatt and Andy Lau were superb. There were so many well known actors and actresses in this movie. All the casts have done well to illustrates the titanic struggle to unite the country. The peaceful protest,demonstrations and the nationalism portrayed were very realistic. I have watched it several times and some scenes reminded me of the OWS movement. The movie did awesomely in portraying how the conspiracy to divide China inspired the people to go against the corrupted officials. I highly recommended all to watch.

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dbborroughs
2011/06/29

Know at the start I've over rated this film a point or two simply because the film is nowhere near as bad as the rating of 2.3 readers have given this film.This film is a telling of the founding of the communist party from the point of the 1911 revolution on to the the actual founding. Its a star studded flag waiving puff piece put together by official Chinese authorities.A great film to look at the film could have and should have been a masterpiece of more than the technical arts.The problem is that the films march to compress several decades of complex history into a couple of hours makes the film a highlight reel where we get clips of events which have the significance explained by titles on the screen. The result is not the living history they were aiming for, but rather it's a dull museum piece... or a lesser History Channel special. I kept waiting for Edward Hermann's narration to kick in and explain the away the slow spots.On some level I kind of liked the film, but more because it gave me some basic understanding of the events that transpired. I completely understand that the film is tinged with pro-Communist propaganda but at the same time much of it is clearly visible...and beside things move so fast you'd have to be crazy to completely accept that this is everything that happened.Worth a look see for those with an interest in Historucal epics... then again I'd go for the much better Founding of a Republic if given the choice.

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Fei Chen
2011/06/30

Well, this is a movie made with political purpose, however it is not an extremely bad movie if you take off the political bits.the producer has been working hard on the detail and it actually corrected several historical common sense of the general Chinese population.Lot of famous local celebrities so it is quite fun sometimes.Apart from that it is nothing, this is not a serious way to produce a movie for history.BTW, the writer used to write comedy.I think a fair score will be 2 or 3, however because of this movie, transformer 3 will have to be postponed till end of July therefore i will give 1.

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