Beyond the Blood, It’s All About the Bonding
di Terrence Rafferty The New York Times
UNTHINKABLY, no bullets fly in John Woo’s “Red Cliff,” this Hong Kong action master’s first new movie in six years. It’s as hard to imagine a Woo film without firearms as it is to contemplate a Fellini movie without fat people. But “Red Cliff” is set at the beginning of the third century, in the contentious waning days of China’s Han Dynasty, so Mr. Woo, though not by nature a stickler for realism, has to forego the solace of his customary ordnance — automatic, semiautomatic, even the quaint revolver — in favor of quieter instruments of death, like bows and arrows and long, sharp spears. [...]
di Terrence Rafferty, articolo completo (9541 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 13 Settembre 2009
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