Red Cliff Or How John Woo Stopped Worrying And Loved The Bomb

… the film EPIC, in technique and in tone. In Red Cliff John Woo reverts back to his sophomore homages to the Shaw Brothers era. Whist zoom-ins and time lapse montages worked in the Kung-Fu fiction of Hong Kong cinema in the 70s or in the Chow Yun Fat gun toting action excesses of 80s-90s HK cinema …

Tags: shaw brothers, hk cinema, hong kong cinema, john woo, chow yun fat