"The story begins in 1948 during the Huaihai Campaign of the Chinese Civil War. Gu Zidi, a PLA captain, commands his 9th Company in siege to a town defended by NRA forces. The company captures the town despite sustaining heavy casualties in an ambush. After witnessing his political commissar being brutally killed by an enemy field gun operator, Gu orders the surrendering NRA prisoners-of-war to be shot, but his command is met mainly with refusal. Gu is imprisoned as punishment"
Not as bad as I thought it was going to be but this film is still pretty awful to me. This film has a neutral feelings wherein it doesn't really hurt anybody, it shows that war is war and every soldier should be accounted for and honored. For that I respect the movie as that is the best message this movie could have put out. There was no real brotherhood in the film, it seemed like the relationships were forced since we are kind of just thrown into the story. The film was almost distant as we don't get a sense of how things really are. If you want to watch a Chinese war film that doesn't look like it was made by the Chinese communist party then this is a movie for you.
2/5
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