Director John Woo returns to his roots with a different kind of action picture than he is known for in Hollywood, an old-fashioned historical epic based on an AD 208 Chinese battle.
di Kenneth Turan The Los Angeles Times
John Woo has set himself a new challenge in "Red Cliff," and that's to be as old-fashioned as possible. Returning to his roots after a stint in Hollywood, Woo has made the most expensive film in mainland Chinese history, a pleasantly traditional picture that marks a new direction for one of the world's premier action maestros.
Woo's classic Hong Kong films with tough-guy titles like "Bullet in the Head" and "Hard-Boiled" featured intense, focused, almost balletic contemporary gangster shootouts that seemed to redefine what these kinds of movies could do. [...]
di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (3854 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 25 novembre 2009
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