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The Eight Hundred

Ba bai

2020

Guan Hu

Yi Zhang, Yao Chen, Haoming Yu, Augusta Xu-Holland ...

5.8

928

War. Action From the acclaimed filmmaker behind Mr. Six comes a riveting war epic. In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

	Author	Review
United States	Maggie Lee Variety	"[It] offers an imposing (and demanding) mix of action and historical detail (...) [It] plunges audiences into both the intimacy and magnitude of brutal war spectacle"	POS
United States	Elizabeth Kerr The Hollywood Reporter	"The film deftly balances frantic combat with clarity — the characters may feel anonymous, but we always know what’s happening (...) But (...) The Eight Hundred is thin on characterization, and too often slips into rote narrative"	NEU
United Kingdom	Cath Clarke The Guardian	"With so much intense focus lavished on the action, there’s none to spare for the characters’ emotional lives, and it’s hard to care much about who lives or dies (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	James Luxford Metro	"The film’s biggest appeal is its ability to mix large scale action with singular, intimate stories (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Michael Ordoña Los Angeles Times	"'Eight Hundred' skips over the whole character-development part, along with the logic of many choices and scenes"	NEG

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