![]() ![]() Unfortunately, China still has not build up a decent pool of ethnically non-Asian quality actors, so I foresee more of this happening in the future. ![]() I think, however, that this can mainly be attributed to the fact that these actors are far from being A-listers. But the actors were really chewing the scenery here, especially in their line delivery, which was unfortunate. The directors and script writers did provide at least a couple of scenes of American soldiers talking about home life, and I thought this was a good choice to provide the American side with some humanity. Less well done were the scenes of the American side. It showcases that the social class he was born in as Mao Zedong's son mattered nothing, because death is equal to all when fighting a war. Also, a good choice to feature Mao Anying's participation and death in the narrative. It also does it's job of illustrating the theme of ordinary people being capable of extraordinary heroics feats and self-sacrifice when under existential threat. For anyone not suffering from McCarthyist hysteria, this is a decent movie with well-crafted, tense, and dramatic action scenes. All those 1-star review bombs are exposing the current climate of McCarthyist sinophobic hysteria in the west pretty accurately.
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