Today is first launching day of Red Cliff Part 2. I went to CineLeisure to watch this, one MUST SEE movie of the year 2009 and it really didn't disappoint me. I went there with my classmates and Nigel joined us as well. As you can expect, it was full house and we only managed to get 3rd row seats.

If you think that the part 1 was boring, the part 2 will not let you down although the first hour of the show was a bit unnecessary but it is still worth to wait for the battle of Chi Bi. If you think the part 1 was not bad, then you must definitely cant miss the part 2, which is more and more exciting than part 1, of course...

Another great news, if you are personally like Lin Zhi Ling, famous taiwanese model, she is appear much more times than the previous part and she is one of the important role for this battle.

So, let roughly talk about this movie. Like I said, roughly because I don't want to be the spoiler and I strongly recommend you go to purchase a movie ticket if you like about chinese history. But, same as part 1, you can't expect the storyline is exactly the same from what you saw from the book, even the book you studied is maybe not the correct history.

Before go into the details about the storyline, lets us talk about the battlefield scene. From part 1, the only huge battle is about the formation of Ba Gua and it was pretty nice formation and quite a huge battle as well, of course it is not as huge as the battle of Chi Bi. So, for part 2, the director of the movie, John Koo doesn't let all the viewers down and what I can say is, the battle scene is seriously done nicely and I think he spent quite a lot of efforts to make sure that the viewers won't fall asleep during the first hour of the movie by preparing some funny lines for the actors, especially for the Liu Bei Advisor, Mr Zhu Ge Kong Ming. This is the part I quite don't like about the movie because it make me feel that the Kong Ming is not a very serious person. For Wu General, Gan Ning, you can see how funny he was trying to create the powerful fireboom and seriously that was really very funny.

The Battle of Chi Bi, started by burning all the warships those belong to Cao Cao Force. Thousands of warships just burned down by Wu Force quite easily because of the wind direction. General Gan Ning was sacrified to open the main gate for his force to break through the defense line of the Cao Cao Force. They fought from midnight until morning and at the end, as you can expect, the Allied Force won the battle and captured Master Cao Cao and Xiao Qiao (Lin Zhi Ling), the wife of Zhou Yu was been saved, nicely by his husband. The most funny part is at the end of the battle, Zhou Yu decided to let Cao Cao go. What a waste...

How about the storyline? We can't blame the director because he was tried his best to squeeze about 2-3 chapters into a 2.5 hours movie. Fortunately, the plot of borrow the arrows from Cao Cao is part of the movie. Beside this, the visit of Jiang Gan was quite nonsense and the 'Fake Punishment of Huang Gai' was missing and they added the story about the Shun Shang Xiang who the one went to Cao Cao camp to investigate and to check about the strength of Cao Cao Force. It was quite wasting time seriously but I think it is because of commercial purpose. It must put in some love story to make sure it still can attrach people to come and watch the movie.

So, overall I think it is still a very good movie to watch and worth every cents you spend for battle scene, which was cost me SGD 9.00. The director didn't let me down.

Rating: 4/5 stars