adonis98-743-186503 A historical drama based on the founding of the Republic of China when nationalist forces led by Sun Yat-sen overthrew the Qing Dynasty. I was expecting a little bit more to be honest from '1911: The Revolution' plus Jackie Chan? He was hardly even in this movie so that poster? Was made only for to get his fans to see this movie and it's pretty much a hoax. I was expecting alot to see some kind of war sequences as well? They never came and although it's a beautiful looking movie? It's not a good movie to say the least i'm afraid or even a memorable one.

Lee Eisenberg China has been one of the primary driving forces in the world for almost two millennia. The incarnations known to recent generations are the People's Republic of China (the mainland) and the Republic of China (Taiwan). But these only emerged after two thousand years of monarchical rule. Jackie Chan's "Xinhài Gémìng" ("1911" in English) looks at the revolution that brought down the Qing dynasty. This topic briefly got touched on in "The Last Emperor", but here we get the full story of how Sun Yat-sen sought funds from the Chinese diaspora to counter the Western powers' support of the corrupt, dysfunctional royal family. Over the course of a year, the revolutionary movement waged repeated battles against the monarchy, eventually forcing Puyi's abdication in 1912.Chan plays Huang Xing, a Sun's second-in-command, with Winston Chao playing Sun. I should say that the movie's pace in some scenes is awkward, with words identifying the characters while they talk (making it hard to read the subtitles). But that's only a minor problem. The battle scenes, and the look at the 72 Martyrs make clear that the road from the Qing dynasty to republican China was no easy one. It's not a great movie, but I recommend it. A similar movie that I recommend is "The Soong Sisters".Also starring Jaycee Chan, Li Bingbing, Joan Chen and Hu Ge.

JoeB131 The most telling moment. It's nearly an hour into the film, and somewhere in the middle of this incoherent plot Jackie Chan actually slides down a pipe and does a Jackie Chan thing and beats up three assassins. It's like he went nearly a whole movie without doing typical Jackie Chan stuff, and he just couldn't help himself.I'd like to say this wasn't plot relevant, but that would work on the dubious assumption this film had a plot.It talks about the fall of the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty, and frankly, we already did that movie. It was called "The Last Emperor", and it was a vastly better film. This one seems to revel in re-enactments of battles, but doesn't really flesh out the characters too much. The annoying flash cards explaining events and characters (many of whom weren't necessary, really) was really more of a distraction.I think this film is probably more interesting to Chinese Audiences, but I didn't give a darn about any of the characters or how this was going to all turn out. They end the movie on a happy note before Civil and world war and Communist dictatorship. WHich is kind of like Ending Titanic before they hit the Iceberg.I'm going to give it a 2 for period costumes and props.

kluseba "1911" is an epic Chinese historical drama that honours the centennial anniversary of the revolution against the Qing dynasty. The movie convinces with great special effects in the battle scenes, beautiful and authentic locations, bombastic costumes, many intellectual words and impressive images and a bunch of great and internationally recognized actors such as the very unusual and surprisingly convincing Jackie Chan, the once again very diversified Joan Chan or the charming shooting star Bingbing Li. This movies teaches us a lot about Chinese culture and history and captures the essential of a complex story in a short and intense running time. Even for someone who doesn't know a lot about China, the introduction and the subtitles reveal and explain enough to understand and get into a beautiful movie even though the ending could have been a little bit more expanded. I think the movie could have focused a little bit more on the situation and the authentic everyday life of the Chinese population instead of focusing only on the fate of the famous historic characters.Normally, this movie would have got one point more but I cut off one point because this feature has some elements that remind me of a propaganda cinema. Good and evil are too opposite and well defined and I'm sure that this movie is not always faithful towards the true history behind it. The good guys are wise, selfless and honest while the camp of the bad guys are one dimensional, egoistic and helpless. The movie tries to create a lot of sympathy for the main characters such as Sun Yat-Sen. In one scene, he convinces with his wise words only a bunch of ignorant, selfish and capitalist politics representing a very negative image of the Western civilization. That's a very romantic and epic scene but it's simply to pathetic to be true. This kind of falsification spoils the enjoyment of this otherwise technically perfect movie a lot. At least, after many American, Russian and German propaganda movies that I saw, this is a rather intriguing and also moderate movie with propagandistic tendencies from an Asian country.Apart of this little but though important flaw, this movie is a definite must see and yet another great history flick from China that easily beats the boring patriotic American war movies that have flooded the cinemas of the world a decade ago. It's time for a change and from a qualitative and cultural point of view, I happen to find these detailed, epic and entertaining Chinese history flicks very addicting.