1911 R
The Fall of the Last Empire
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 10, 2012
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Well Go Usa
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Jackie Chan, Jaycee Chan, Joan Chen & Winston Chao | |
Performer: | Bingbing Li | |
Directed by | Jackie Chan & Zhang Li | |
Screenwriting by | Chen Baoguang & Wang Xingdong | |
Composition by | Ding Weimin & Ding Wei | |
Produced by | Jackie Chan | |
Director of Photography: | Huang Wei | |
Executive Production by | Jackie Chan |
Entertainment Reviews:
At two full hours the pace drags in the final quarter.
East Bay Express
Rating: 2/4 --
Packed with so many characters and subtitled history lessons it barely allows its excellent main cast room to maneuver.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 2/4 --
The Revolution will not be televised, Gil Scott-Heron once sang. Nor should it be filmed, we might add -- at least not as a costume drama with stirring speeches, an inspirational love story and gloriously heroic military charges.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 2.5/5 --
What should be rousing stuff - a republic is born! the chains of feudalism thrown off! - remains a kind of lavishly illustrated history lesson.
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New York Times
Rating: 2/5 --
Earnest and studious to a fault. Rarely has a film about upheaval felt more like a textbook.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 1.5/4 --
A historical superproduction in which style, aside from committee-made, widescreen tedium, is spectacularly absent.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: D --
A haphazard grab-bag of context-free fight scenes, cardboard characters and constant title cards explaining key details that the film itself can't reveal in any other way.
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Mania.com
Product Description:
Dexterous martial-arts legend Jackie Chan reaches his 100th-film milestone with this historical drama set in the year 1911, as the Chinese public begins to revolt against the Qing dynasty that has ruled the country for 250 years. As the child emperor takes the throne and his mother, Empress Dowager Longyu (Joan Chen), clings to power, famine sweeps the land and warring factions clash in battle. Meanwhile, the army beings targeting rebels, and the desperate leaders of the Qing dynasty begin putting the country's future at risk through rampant trading with foreign countries. When Huang Xing (Jackie Chan) returns home from studying modern warfare in Japan, he finds his homeland consumed by strife. Realizing that the only hope for the future is for China to take up arms and topple the Qing dynasty, Huang enters into an epic battle that threatens devastating consequences for the common people. Lee Bing Bing, Jaycee Chan, and Winston Chao co-star.
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- UPC: 812491012598
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