Movie Info
Genre :
Drama, History, WarRelease Date :
May 23, 2008 (Limited)MPAA Rating :
RDirector :
Roger SpottiswoodeStarring :
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Chow Yun-Fat, Michelle Yeoh, Radha Mitchell, David Wenham, Guang Li, Matt Walker, Ping Su, Anastasia Kolpakova
REVIEWS RATE:
Critics 
Readers 
[Rate It]
“..Laborious and artificial..”
by Glenn Whipp [LA Daily News]
“..beautiful, well-acted and thoroughly absorbing..”
by Lewis Beale [Film Journal International]
“..BEAUTIFUL but boring..”
by V.A. Musetto [New York Post]
“..a tale as ploddingly familiar as it is good-looking and worth telling..”
by Ella Taylor [Village Voice]
“..a cold, dry movie with all the taste of water and white bread..”
by Chris Cabin [Filmcritic.com]
Review rate : D
Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
Reviewed by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly]
Reviewed by Jeannette Catsoulis [NY Times]
Reviewed by Carina Chocano [LA Times]
Reader's Reviews
Good story with great narrative and geogrphical sweep but sadly let down by wooden acting of Rhys-Meyers. Who knew that Chow Yun-Fat's english was so good and that in speaking it his acting skills would so wilfully abandoned him.
posted by Ann Lesley on Oct 15, 2008Good story with great narrative and geogrphical sweep but sadly let down by wooden acting of Rhys-Meyers. Who knew that Chow Yun-Fat's english was so good and that in speaking it his acting skills would so wilfully abandoned him.
posted by Ann Lesley on Oct 15, 2008Good story with great narrative and geogrphical sweep but sadly let down by wooden acting of Rhys-Meyers. Who knew that Chow Yun-Fat's english was so good and that in speaking it his acting skills abandoned him.
posted by Ann Lesley on Oct 15, 2008