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Red Corner

Red Corner

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: More Enjoyable Than The Movie.
Review: The music for "Red Corner" is thrilling and emotional. It flows with the intense feeling of the movie and it's visual images. I especially loved the music that plays when Richard Gere escapes from Chinese authorities and it progresses into a thrilling roof-top chase scene. "Red Corner" was an okay movie, the soundtrack is even better. It's full of powerful emotion and feeling, it's also quite thrilling. I highly recommend it.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Mei Shi! Really, "it's nothing".
Review: The premise of this idiotic film is that an American businessman played by Richard Geare is able to exonerate himself of a crime which he did not commit purely on the basis of the fact that he knows how to say "it's nothing" in Chinese. The plot of this idiotic film is that some greedy businessmen in cahoots with corrupt members of the Chinese government stage an elaborate show trial to off their rival instead of just killing him. The romance in this idiotic film is two-fold:

1.) A trampy model who is supposed to set Richard Geare up for black mail changes her mind because she likes him.

2. The sweet, sensitive female lawyer who represents Richard Geare kind of takes a fancy to him herself.

I could probably endure the moronic plot, and even all the Chinese bashing that goes on in the film. But to hear Richard Geare sputter two or three words of Chinese and to realize that this is a fulcrum of the plot is more than I can endure.

You're really better off watching "Drop Dead Fred" or "Cabin Boy".

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Some good moments but mediocre on the whole
Review: This is almost a good movie. It has a statement to make(China's prisons are not the best place to be afterall) , a decent plot and an Oscar-worthing perfomance from Bai Ling as Richard Gere's chinese laywer.The problems begin with Gere's colourless acting and the directors obsession to make him stand out.It's silly to watch him use his right to defend himself in the chinese court.How can you believe that a common business man would have the guts and the brains to do that ? Then it's the producers fear not to let the chinese actors speak their mothertongue for more than five minutes.They somehow seem to be scared that if they do so , the audiences will be bored and leave the cinemas before the halfway mark."I'm gonna tell you this in english in order not to humiliate you" says Ling's character, to a chinese officer in some justice building full of files . Ok but...why?

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: POWERFUL AND REMARKABLE !
Review: This movie depicts a man's incredible legal battle under a murder charge against himself.He is calumniated and all the legal procedure is biased.But he's got a puissant attorney though it'd take a long hard struggle for her to acquit her client...

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: mystery
Review: this movie is the most suspecting mistery of the year,aand have a lot of action, its a real movie. if you didn't rent or buy you should now buy here in amazon.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Nice but misleading movie
Review: This movie is very impressive and amusing.Foreign businessman's makeing love in Chinese-girl is very common case and two person's relation between JACK and his lawyer is heartwarming.But I think the describing way of CHINESE POWER is a little biased.I'm afraid people see this movie apt to misunderstand what present real CHINA is. To remenber old CHINA,I recommend to see this movie.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Briefly Stirring and Evocative, But More Misses Than Hits
Review: Thomas Newman's score for the motion picture RED CORNER is largely disinteresting in scope, which is generally surprising, given that he presented us with such a rich tapestry embodied by THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION. In this piece, one would expect a rich fusion of Western Romanticism with Chinese atonalism, much like what Rachel Portman presented with her rather remarkable score for THE JOY LUCK CLUB. Most of the movements for RED CORNER are subtle and understated, lacking punch or even real humanity. That's not to say the score is totally bereft of any musical gems, however; certain tracks, such as Shen Yuelin's theme (Track 17) are sweepingly romantic, and the central theme is presented via a traditional Chinese instrument, the erhu. The rather enchanting theme is present in "Red Corner (Main Title)," Track 1, and again in Track 25, "Remarkable Things." Some quick and dirty action sequences are rolled out with Track 19, "Capitalism," and Track 26, "Black (End Title)," but neither of these are particularly stirring. Best hits on the CD: Tracks 1, 17, and 25. The remaining 23 tracks are generally unremarkable, save the traditional Chinese cuts (Tracks 6, 12, and 20), merely because of the music's outright ethnicity. If you're hankering for something meatier that possesses an East meets West theme, go with Portman's THE JOY LUCK CLUB or Goldsmith's THE SAND PEBBLES. RED CORNER barely whets one's musical appetite.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Entertaining and suspenseful yarn
Review: With its overtly anti-Chinese message, this is yet another in a long line of Hollywood spectaculars that have glorified white American heroes menaced by either Russian communists, Muslim militants or Red Indians. One scene is especially fanciful: Richard Gere outwitting and overpowering Chinese policemen by escaping onto a rooftop. It is supposed that he, a Buddhist, has a personal stake in helping to denigrate China, the sometime nemesis and persecutor of Tibet. In any case, this is a splendid suspense drama, adrenalin-pumping and action-packed, with excellent photography and a superb musical score.


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