By Maggie Lee
HONG KONG (Hollywood Reporter) - As the first film to re-create the Battle of Chibi in 208 A.D., the most famous military feat in Chinese history, John Woo's "Red Cliff" is a Pan-Asian project with the word "monumental" written all over it.
The 140-minute first half that opened across major Asian territories provides the beams and columns for the narrative framework, but with a few decisive and spot-on action spectacles, it sufficiently kindles expectations for the climactic clash in Part 2. The Western version will be a shorter, condensed one.
Costing $80 million and years in the making, "Red Cliff" is the most expensive Chinese-language picture ever mounted. Its investors are likely to recoup most of it from the Asian market, where the story has infiltrated school curriculum, computer games and manga.
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