十月围城

is so damn painfully good!
It’s been a while since I last watched an excellent movie.
Throughout the 138 minutes, it captured my 100% attention.
Almost all casts put up very good performance.
So good that I can feel the emotions they are protraying; be it simple happiness or pain.
王学圻, 梁家辉 were excellent; every subtle facial expression, eye movement or hand gesture is indicative of the experienced actors' skill to bring out the intricate personality of their character. 谢霆锋 & 甄子丹 also proven they are more than just eye-candy idol & martial artist respectively; newbies 李宇春 & 王柏杰 did fairly good too. Dawn天王 served as a comical relief for this otherwise heavy plot of blood and deaths.

But of coz I can’t say there are no loopholes, but it is really insignificant given the excellent work presented.For e.g. giving the full understanding of the risks Dr. Sun had to go through, why did he still choose to come HK at this date & venue? Can’t u change the venue or secretly plan another date to meet?

Nevertheless, this movie is not about how great Dr. Sun is.
Neither is it an action packed film where its all just fights. In fact, u don’t see overloaded of Donnie Yan flanting his martial arts.
The director takes his time to develop each characters, position them carefully within a clear historical context & fully explore their intricate web of relationship to each other, before the bloody carnage.
And when all these 小咔们 (not in reel life but in the script) come together and sacrifice themselves as patriotic bodyguards who go all out to protect the Dr. Sun; the end result is equation to this highly recommended movie.
Remember i was saying it was painfully good?
Cause u can practically feel their pain while watching.
And this is call good acting.

Definitely worth every cents & time to watch.
i know it because almost everyone around me were praising or discussing it right after watching it last night.
A 4.8/5 stars work.