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I heard about many bad reviews before I see the movie, but really, it is much worse than I can imagine! Most of all, the script, it is disorganized, disoriented, incoherent, illogical, forced, pretentious and totally lack of intelligence. If anyone believe such a script can be made into an epic, the person is demented, thus think the audience would be so too. The bad script provides no character ,no true story, but only ridiculous dialog, which is totally unbearable if one understands Chinese. All the Asian talents in the casts are embarrassedly wasted. Chinese movie makers should realize good movie need true characters and human emotions , like in Ang Li's films.

I stumbled on this film by accident and I did enjoyed it. Not only the plot kept me watching, more were the good acting and Kate Winslet ,of course. Afterwords, I look up wikipedia and read all about ' Enigma' and 'Bletchley Park', and realized the real history about cryptanalysis and cryptologists in WW II were much more fascinating than what the movie had shown. So it is no surprise that people who have knowledge about this part of history will find the movie disappointing, even I do after some reading. Nevertheless, I am glad this segment of history was made into a movie and by chance had me seen it. Still, I could not help but wondering how exciting the movie may be if produced by a more capable team.

The movie really is good enough for its genre. The story well written and paced, the characters well portrayed, especially by Granger and Douglas. Granger was a natural as the adventurous treasure hunting mining engineer , Douglas, solid and humane , played his long time partner and friend. Together, they fought the hardship of mining, the bandits, sometimes each other, and for the girl Kelly. Kelly was a bit out of place here. She though was very beautiful but somehow too civil and too dignified for the south American jungle background. Her romance with Granger lacked intensity and passion. Fortunately, the story and some actions provided enough intensity and excitement , made the movie quite enjoyable