Red Cliff

a cool (if slightly inaccurate) rendition of a classic -- 8088 black & white computer game. a pity it ends on such a "cliff"-hanger though. read more

aku gundul mas, gundul! nih, aku ini orangnya subjektif ya kalo nilai film. soalnya gini, kalo nilai dari hal yang objektif macam penulisan, sinematografi, lokasi, wardrobe, koreografi, etc, etc, etc, ya jelas aku belum bisa secara mendetail, lha wong baru pernah kerja di produksi film kecil-kecilan cuma sebagai penulis naskah sama bagian art, itupun baru 1 - 2 kali karena kebentur kuliah. ya maafkanlah kalo aku cuma bisa nilai red cliff itu "very fucking well done" (kecuali mungkin untuk nge-flesh out tiap-tiap karakter kali ya, bagiku mah itu tetep "good" mengingat terbatasnya screentime... read more

30-second review: this was, at the time, the most expensive wholly chinese production ever made, with an $80 million usd budget to try to do justice to such a famous tale. the battle of red cliffs is one small section of china's major ancient epic, "the romance of the three kingdoms". though there is a slight bit of romance here, they use the word in the sense of an epic poem, like the trojan war or the epic of gilgamesh. so this then is a fantasy-action film with larger-than-life heroes, lushly filmed and handsomely-mounted. it has a cast on the order of the final roster of game of thrones,... read more