800 is the movie, premiered in china July. blah blah blah, best movie, so emotional, so much pride... ALL BS publicity stunts.
Japanese vs china war historical war film, (built a real scene of 68 buildings; using ~31 football fields; sadly, nowadays, no one could tell if it was Universal studio movie set of CGI). They put in a lot of detail in the nicer settings decor as well as camera movement. No substance is just no substance; similar to someone wearing prada without any class, one look and meh.
Why this movie didn't work... Unlike saving private ryan, there was a leader, which gave tension and bond between the group of soliders, giving audience a sense of care and emotional ride.
When you don't do that, all you got is a good set, spread out of actors with minimal background strings. You get: oh he's a cadets, a translators, a veteran solider, student etc but you barely care about resulting just "oh, it's japs against the chinese". Feel bad for the actors who put so much work yet not able to translate or showcase it.
They already made their money back maybe cause people are dying to watch movies but it's not the best. OH, movie is not in mandarin but in shanghaiese.
6.5/10