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Oct 26, 2018 · 0% Tomatometer 5 Reviews 12% Audience Score 100+ Ratings During World War II, five Chinese people fight their way through Japanese air attacks to protect a military machine. Read More Read Less...
- Xiao Feng
- War, History, Drama
- Bruce Willis
Oct 27, 2018 9:12am PT. Film Review: ‘Air Strike’. The myriad offscreen woes experienced by this controversial, expensive Chinese WW2 action epic overshadow the hectic, jumbled onscreen...
Oct 26, 2018 · Air Strike: Directed by Xiao Feng. With Ye Liu, Bruce Willis, Song Seung-heon, William Chan. During World War II, five different Chinese people fight their way through Japanese Air Force attacks to protect an important military machine in Chongqing, 1940.
- (4.8K)
- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Xiao Feng
- 2018-10-26
TOP CRITIC. Air Strike retains elements of evident expanse and expense. Yet the final result is such a compromised jumble it's hard to tell what its full original intentions might have been....
- Born from Tragedy
- An Americanized Anti-Japanese Drama
- At Least It’S Not in Production Hell
- Death and Taxes
Between 1938 and 1943, the Japanese military conducted hundreds of air raids against Chongqing, China’s provisional capital during the Second Sino-Japanese War(which, in the West’s eyes, gets folded into World War II starting 1941). Tens of thousands of civilians died, as China’s fledgling Air Force struggled to fend off superior Japanese equipment...
Predictably, Air Strikecontains loads of death and destruction—maybe too much. The film feels like an Americanized anti-Japanese drama; a novel concept, though not necessarily for the right reasons. Over the past few years, sensational anti-Japanese dramas have flooded Chinese television, to the government’s chagrin. With infamously garish scenes (...
I’m not surprised Air Striketurned out like this. In Chinese cinema, the combination of foreign guest stars, excessive A-list cameos, massive budgets, and geopolitical significance is a perfect recipe for disaster. In such projects, quality usually takes a backseat to profit, meaning fickle businessmen end up driving cinematic decisions—to disastro...
Of course, Air Strike won’t screen in any Chinesetheaters. Why? Because somebody made the supremely wise choice of paying superstar actress Fan Bingbing US$4.2M for a 30-second cameo as a school principal who dies three minutes into the movie. Unfortunately, Fan reported a much smaller sum than US$4.2M to China’s tax authorities, who recently caugh...
Air Strike (Chinese: 大轰炸) also known as The Bombing or Unbreakable Spirit is a Chinese action war-drama film directed by Xiao Feng about the Japanese bombings of Chongqing during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Mel Gibson joined as production designer.
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