Pam M. from MANCHESTER, CT
Reviewed on 7/24/2012...
We rented this movie over the weekend and it is definitely one I want to own. All actors do a fantastic job. Some of the dialogue is in Chinese but most of it is in English. It is set during the Nanking Massacre in the 1930s.
Here is how they dedcribe it on the movie's website:
"From internationally celebrated director Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern, Hero, House Of Flying Daggers) comes a story of love and war - and a band of outcasts who emerge as unlikely heroes from the shadows of a city's occupation. At once lyrical and visceral, the film enters the apocalyptic world of Nanjing in 1937 only to find a vibrant human story about the invisible people of the city and a series of unexpected relationships that lead to a resonant act of sacrifice."
This one is a keeper.