Wang de Shengyan

Great Movie, but you need to understand the history of china and the background first. Without the knowledge of historical events in this movie, It's almost impossible to catch up the story and to understand the characters. If you don't know the background history, please google 'Chu-Han contention' before you watch this movie.

Obvious, it is a beautiful film. For admirable cinematography, for the great political lessons, for atmosphere, for the wise way to remind old, fundamental truths. So, just delightful, for a sort of grace of storytelling, for profound moral, for the portrait of conquest of power and its not real reasonable price, for the manner to write history . And for the truths behind apparences.

To make commercial movies with the idea of making literary and artistic films is to elaborate the black screen of history, but the entry point is not accurate enough. The whole film has a slow rhythm and no fluctuation. The story line, especially the old Liu Bang, seems particularly confused.

In fact, the atmosphere and the beauty of scene may be the best among films about this topic. The first emperor of Han Dynasty Liu Bang and his wife told us a golden rule in politic: kill your politic ennemy as soon as possible if you could. Another from Xiang Yu: Never overestimate morality.

Wanted to just "play it in the background" while I work at night after my kids sleep. I stopped work halfway and became immersed into the movie.

It's a similar story as told by historians, but from a way different perspective.

Impactful, grossly underrated, and made me think about the entire movie again the next day.

Don't believe the low rating here, just watch it.