Have any of you guys seen this film yet? Its about the Chinese revolution a century ago (the nationalist one that overthrew the monarchy, not the communist one decades later).
It stars Jackie Chan, but only has a short martial arts combat scene. Most of the rest of the film is dialogue, but there are several fight scenes including some trench warfare action and urban combat using WW1-era weapons.
Without revealing too much of the plot, I love how at one point a mounted machine gun overheats and the commander orders his subordinate to piss on it to cool it down. I bet that happened a lot in real life back then, when water wasn't readily available as a cooling agent. Soldiers had to improvise.
Anyway, its out on DVD right now, might be worth your time since there isn't much else interesting out right now. I watched it with my brother and we both enjoyed it. If you do rent it, just be sure to view it on a large screen, as the dialogue is mostly in Mandarin with English sub-titles, some in quite a small font which can be hard to read if you don't have a very big screen.
But it was interesting, to say the least.
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