The Eight Hundred

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source: The Eight Hundred

Writing this review in Point Form. My grumble with this film: Too much shouting and over the top acting BUT otherwise a watchable war film that recounts the ''Defense of Sihang Warehouse in 1937 Shanghai''. Some of the character dialogue scenes are hard to follow. I heard there is a 1976 version released in Taiwan, Have yet to see that one. I might do so just to cross references the events from 2 different perspective, CCP or China Communist Party and Republic Of Taiwan. What I like and learnt from this film: Gritty, Raw, Unfiltered violence film on IMAX camera. Before watching, I have never heard of the Defense of Sihang Warehouse in 1937 Shanghai. After watching it, did a readup on wikipedia, realised most of the stuff did happen.

So, where do I start. Pros and cons. I will try my best to be rational rather than just hating or faking. First of all, the picture is great. Unlike many other war-theme movie made by Mainland China, the picture of those movies either look bad or just ok. However, this one doesn't look like a Chinese film like I used to know to be honest. The detail, the angle, and the structure are all above the top level. I don't have professional filming industry background, but as an audience living in both mainland China and US, I have watched tons of movies, and when it comes to war-theme movies, I can assure you this one isn't bad at all. Second, the detail of war. War is always tough. Living in the peace world for decades made people forget how bad the war is. I was raised in Xinjiang China, and came to the US since junior High. I've seen footage of the killing riots happened in both China and US such as 2009 "7.5" happened in Urumqi, 1989 "6.4" happened in Tiananmen, 1921 in Tulsa, and so many more, but those are not comparable with war-level event. Life somehow turned to just a number showing on the statistic excel sheet. Sacrifice was one of many words that I could think of of this movie, the tough thing is you have to deal with the real facts, which was Chinese army back then was weak, even the best troop they have was not on the same level with the Japanese army. Then, you see how they gon fight this war, they sacrifice lives to create opportunities for others, one dead another took over the spot, and that was just hard to watch. People are afraid to death, so are soldiers, but afraid is not an option, that's what makes soldiers different. Third, the story, and the politics behind the story. The movie was created based on a true historical story. I don't want to spoil here, but what I can say is that the movie showed at least big part of the history, and for most of Chinese people, that's some unknown history that they've never learned in the text book. When I was a kid, I used to live in China, the text book wont show much about how the NRP(Nationalist Party) contributed into this war against advanced Japanese Army. Your teacher will tell you exactly what they supposed to tell you, and yeah, the only good parts of CCP. Yet, the bad and the other parts was not told. I was fortunate to learn a lot of those unknown parts after coming to the US for high school. Just like anybody else, you may ask why the hell an army full of untrained soldiers with weapons would beat German-level advanced Japanese Army? I had this question, but the answer was tough to know. We didn't beat them, we sacrificed many lives just to save more time so there's hope for a future that nobody know what's gonna look like. This movie showed exactly the toughness of NPR Soldiers and how bad they wanted to save the nation and the people. They didn't know what's coming to them, they didn't know 1937 was just a start, they didn't know CCP would be running the country after the war. However, nobody cares if they were from CCP or NRP, they were all fighting for Chinese people, and they were all heroes dead with honor. There was a line in the movie when a director was telling the army to retreat from the building, he said:"when all this is over, the world will remember this place, the world will remember you guys, and you are the real Chinese." Try to think the meaning behind it, I bet you will at least notice something if you know the history of CCP and NRP.

Great war film reenactment of true event brave Chinese resistance against Japanese in Shanghai, remind Chinese worldwide forefathers went through and inspiring unity nonetheless.

This is a Remake about a historical event. It may be a bit hyped and exaggerated and has quite the nationalistic take (pride wise) to it - something US movies also like to do to the same degree. Hopefully you don't have an issue with that, otherwise you'd deprive yourself of quite the intense and harrowing movie! And visually ... I mean wow, just wow. How it all was built, the amount of preproduction it took, the stunts and so many other things make me want to say "great job". The violence is quite vivid and there is a lot of blood and brutal depictions of injuries and death. Amongst all that there still is character development (and some cliche and over dramatized things too of course)! That is not an easy feat to achieve ... but the movie does it. And even with 2,5 hours (and an odd 15 minutes missing or so probably will be forever lost, since the director had to cut them to get a rating in China) the movie never feels like it is too long ... very well done indeed!

After enjoying the trailer, and being a fan of Asian cinema, I went to the movies to watch The Eight Hundred. As the movie is based on a true story and true events, it was very interesting to see a different kind of war film that's not Hollywood-ised and the great high quality production certainly was impressive. The movie is gripping, intense with solid tension building throughout the movie, lots of action guns and bombs with great performances that I believe the actors deserve great credit for. The writing and direction by Guan Hu was very impressive with nice stylised cinematography. My own dilemmas with the movie was the pacing, story beats and focus on the central story. The movie felt too split everywhere into different perspectives and doesn't focus on a singular character or group to follow the story properly. There was no clear goal or focus for us as the audience to keep an emotional core building. The essence of Chinese patriotism is the front runner story but I felt it took away from my attachment to following a core protagonist/s with their story instead of the theme or essence of patriotism. There's lots of invasion attempts and warfare action with some heartfelt emotional scenes, but not a clear storyline direction that makes it understandable to follow. Make sure to give this movie a go, it's definitely an experience!

I don't usually like chinese action movies because they are often idealistic, tone down and contain too many plot armours. This has taken me by surprise. A rare gem, movie about dramatized real events, with realistic tone and great cinematic actions. Such a rare type of movie at least for me, specifically on the realism. If you watch any east Asian movie, realism is simply rare. Moreover to see old China KMT flag on screen, such a surprise CCP let this movie be screened at all given its regulated censorship on anything that would make people question. China has gone a long way. After this I would love to watch more realistic and well produced chinese movie. Better than most hollywood movies, the movie triggers feelings such as awe in heroism, disgust in privilege differences, fear of death, joy from comic relief and satisfaction from learning history.