with my eyes..... i see everything..... destruction.. peace... hatred..

Part 1 - The beginning of a war

It's set just right before the 3-Kingdom Dynasty period. Liu Bei and his loyal generals are on the run against Cao Cao's army. In order to fight back, they have to make an alliance with Sun Quan, the Sun Army. Zhuge Liang Kong Ming, a master advisor (Takeshi Kaneshiro) uses his smart thinking and guts to convince Sun Quan to make an alliance with Liu Bei's army.

In this movie, you will see the vast power of Cao Cao's army, by looking at the size of their army, you would think that it's impossible to fight them. For those who read up on the Romance of the 3 Kingdoms, you will know this is a trademark victory for SUN and LIU army and the brilliance of 2 advisors namely Zhugeliang and Zhou Yu (Liang Cao Wei) from Sun Army.

Introductions to the famous warriors of Liu Bei will commence shortly after the start of the movie. Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun are the elite commanders of LIU Army. You will also be introduced to Gan Ning, Zhou Yu, Sun Shang Xiang and other great SUN warriors.

Alot of fighting and spilling of blood involved before the show-down at Red Cliff, also the fight of the naval armies. Sadly, that's when the movie ends. (Damn what a cliff-hanger!)

Rating: 9/10!



Red Cliff part 2 -

The story swiftly begins with both sides playing mind games with each other. Using plague as an advantage to war. As the winds are strong, both sides thought of using fire as a weapon in the upcoming battle. The wind was initially in favour of Cao Cao's army.

At one moment, Zhugeliang mentioned "the one who can grasp the momentum of the weather will win the war" and he predicted the wind will soon change in favour of the alliance. Mind games continued, resulting in Cao Cao killing 2 of his naval officers, leaving no one to lead the huge naval army. Zhugeliang knows they are outnumbered and realises they do not have enough arrows for the war as well. He devised a brilliant plan to gather the arrows in a bizarre manner. (Please watch to understand in full details).

Sun Shang Xiang sneaked into Cao Cao's army and disguised herself as a man to get information on their formations and to draw a map. In another turn of event, Liu Bei and his army dissolved the alliance after realising the odds against them, this however is explained as part of Zhou Yu and Zhugeliang's mind games to put Cao Cao's guard down. Soon the war starts in full scale and fighting begins.....

Personally, I dont really like the ending as it was different from the books. In actual fact, after the war, Liu Bei seized a part of SUN's land making it his and finally a home for his people and warriors. Therefore throwing the 3 big armies into a new era named THREE KINGDOMS.

Rating: 8/10

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For a more detailed summary of this movie, please visit Wikipedia (Red Cliff)