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John Woo, Chinese director responsible for, among others, Face Off, this time focuses on Chinese History to create this saga of two long parts that form 4 hours of an epic historical movie at the times of the Han dynasty. This is the most expensive piece made ever in Asia and you can tell already from minute one. Armies of extras, outstanding effects, well chosen script, and beautiful stars.

At first I could help myself from thinking about the seventies awesome TV series named The Water Margin, while seeing the wardrobe, the weapons, their hairdos, etc,.. This is the story of two warlords, at the sunset of the Han dynasty,that rebelled against the dictator emperor and allied to confrontation the last in the mother of all battles.

I see how the film, through the non stopping meaty action, shows to “westerners” how the Chinese culture preceded ours by hundreds of years in the invention of soccer (= Cuju), gunpowder, the use of astrology in the battle field and others. For those of you who look for a well made medieval war action film, with the right amount of blood flowing from the bodies after a blow, the right measure of martial arts, combined with great photography and all in Chinese subtitled sound, this is it.

This was a surprise. Silip or also known as the Daughters of Eve is Philippine funny movie for it starts with a “Viking” logo and you think, well, this looks like a porno movie but it is really not. The first scene is more than revolting watching a guy sacrificing a bull, really, and you don’t see at the end no commitment saying the film was made without causing any pain to animals or something like it. At the beginning you would feel you are on one of those unbearable Hindu village movies of the trillions Bollywood produces, but as you get into “what is the language they mumble?”, well it is Filipino. If I had to classify this movie it would be erotica the category I would place it in. Here is a story of a redneck philipino village and the sexual experiences of 3 young girls among religious creeds and predicaments. Score: 4.