Exclusive Clip From John Woo's 'Red Cliff'!
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John Woo's Red Cliff isn't just the most expensive Asian movie ever made, it's also an epic testament to history and actual wars that were waged on both land and sea. In China the film was four hours long and split into two parts, but American audiences are getting a 2.5 hour version that (unfortunately) has a lot trimmed out of it. There are massive battles, martial arts, trickery, and of course, doves. It is a John Woo film, after all. It is also awesome, and enough to make you forget that he directed Paycheck.
Check out the exclusive clip after the jump which features the initiation of the climactic clash between Cao Cao and Zhou Yu's forces. This is just one of three massive battles in the film which is available today on VOD, Amazon, and the Xbox, and will appear in theaters on November 18th. This movie marks a return of the old John Woo, and it's about time he came back. Let's just hope he'll give us a two-gun wielding Chow Yun-Fat one more time.
Head on after the break to watch the clip and then check out the movie, which is best described as 300 meets Hero with a dash of those huge battles from all of the Lord of the Rings films tossed in.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
10-22-2009 @ 5:14PM
Matt said...
Seriously, don't bother seeing this at the cinema. Everybody outside of Asia (even us in Australia) is being given a cinematic release condensing the 5 hour two-film masterpiece into a single, 2 and a quarter hour film.
It's been cut so viciously whole characters, plots and even battles have been removed. The remaining film for English speaking audiences barely, barely makes sense.
If you love John Woo, and if you want to see some of the very best battle scenes ever committed to film, get the international DVD or - gasp - download the proper version. It's insanely good. But don't see the theatrical release, it'll ruin the real thing for you.
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10-22-2009 @ 6:27PM
bayamus said...
You can find english subtitled region 1 compatible dvd's of the unabridged version on Amazon. My store has carried it for a year already. I absolutely hate Magnet (Magnolia) foreign releases, they are the ones behind the 'Let The Right One In' subtitle fiasco and every single foreign dvd they put out defaults to a English dubbed track. They still have fixed 'Let The Right One In!'
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10-23-2009 @ 10:15AM
ML said...
What disappointing news.
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