I generally like chinese movies but I'm not so much into war movies, so with this predisposition this movie was an awkward choice to me.
So I kinda enjoyed the first 10min, but after 30min I was really bored and that was the case because it was only fighting scenes in the trenches and ruins, and they really lacked in depth. There were some innovative scenes in terms of action but it was a very dragging plot that didn't really develop any suspense.
So after 30min I have skipped the next 30mins that were also only trenches, ruins and fighting because I honestly had enough of it.
So the second half of the movie is set after the war, and there the movie became interesting again, a lot of insights into communist China and many other things that I don't want to spoil, although that plot was dragging a bit aswell but not too much.
Summed up: First half was a boring action war movie but the second half was a solid drama.
Info for german viewers: The dubbing was really well done, but somehow the Bluray video quality was quite grainy so it was not as clear as it could have been I guess.
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