The Taking of Tiger Mountain

Since Detective Dee in 2010 tsui hark has established a new style of emulating Hollywood popcorn flicks with chinese style & it continues here...& i love it.Not as much momentum as his last few films and it does "borrow" from hollywood films heavier but still has lots of fun moments both during and in between the shooting.Hanyu zhang takes control of the film as yang, undercover in Lord hawk's gang.Tony Leung Ka Fais hawk is a straight comic book villain which is weird at first but grows on you

This is a crazy movie, not because a lot of weird shit happens but by the way it was filmed. There are two parts to this movie the first part in 2015 and the second in 1946, The part in modern times doesn't really have any meaning to the story except to allow of a crazy unneeded seconding ending to the story. The story is very similar to Where Eagles Dare and the like where the good soldier are righteous and super capable and the villains are easily tricked and poor shots.

An uneven war movie where one minute you're looking at excellent effects, great costume and set design, the next, it looks like CGI from ten years earlier, and there's a guy with a face tattoo and punk hair, which is not really appropriate for a movie taking place in the 40's. It's a pretty fun movie, don't get me wrong, and it liberally tells an interesting story that most westerners know nothing about. Also, there's some weird sandwiching of two scenes in present day that do not fit at all.

A historical account of a battle in the Chinese civil war, Qu Bo's 1957 novel "Tracks in the Snowy Forest" spawned the Peking opera "Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy." A film adaptation by Xie Tieli ensued in 1970, followed by a Brian Eno recording in 1974. Now "The Taking of Tiger Mountain" gets the 3-D blockbuster film treatment by Tsui Hark, better known in the U.S. for a pair of Jean-Claude Van Damme duds.

The fighting and gun battles were acceptable. The story details could have been handled better. It had a few clever plot turns. There are some interesting characters. Infiltrating the bandit gang seemed a stretch. Parts of the story and dialog were super corny. Hawk was a humourous caricature. Extra points for being dubbed in English, but the Indian accents were out of place. Basically it was worth watching.