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Shanghai

5.7

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Original title

Shanghai

Year

2010

Running time

105 min.

Country

United States

Director

Mikael Håfström

Screenwriter

Hossein Amini

Cast

Music

Gabriel Yared

Cinematography

Benoît Delhomme

Producer

The Weinstein Company, Phoenix Pictures, Living Films

Genre

Thriller. Romance. Drama. Mystery | Pearl Harbor. 1940s. Espionage

Synopsis

An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

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Critics' reviews

"Despite its rich visual evocation of the eponymous port city (...) Mikael Håfström’s film is undone by its tortuous plot, wooden characterisation, absence of narrative tension, and emotional nullity"

Graham Fuller: Screendaily
"At least Gong is ravishing, which occasionally takes your mind off the gibberish that is going full tilt around her."

Rex Reed: The New York Observer
"Pulp without style: Shanghai has many of the staples of noir—back alleys, shadowy figures, hard-boiled narration, and more femmes fatales than a viewer could keep track of—but none of the atmosphere or cool."

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky: AV Club
"Despite boasting a lush period setting and plenty of recognizable stars (...) this derivative, ploddingly plotted WWII-set thriller goes through all the motions of an old-school wartime spy pic with plenty of technical competence but zero panache"

Andrew Barker: Variety
"'Shanghai' is an exercise in retro glamour, alluring decadence and tough-guy posing, all of which it delivers in sufficient quantities."

Mark Jenkins: The Washington Post
"The mystery is muddled, the romance is tepid and scenes that should be electric with tension are almost dull."

Richard Roeper: Chicago Sun-Times
"The spectacular international cast... bring a lot of life to the movie’s uncooperative story material."

Glenn Kenny: The New York Times
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