Member mark187 Posted May 18, 2017 Member Share Posted May 18, 2017 http://screenanarchy.com/2017/05/operation-red-sea-in-production-video-gives-first-look-at-dante-lams-next-film.html Dante Lam keeps increasing the size of his canvas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted May 19, 2017 Moderator Share Posted May 19, 2017 Promo embedded - 'Operation Mekong' was just ok for me, I reviewed it here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mark187 Posted August 5, 2017 Author Member Share Posted August 5, 2017 Sounds like it'll be released around October-November. I think Dante Lam finished it last month but I'm not sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mark187 Posted September 22, 2017 Author Member Share Posted September 22, 2017 https://t.co/wlK1tMEjdl?amp=1 here's a look at the first real trailer! By the way, I was listening to 2Pac's All Eyez on Me album when the original footage showcase hit in May, and Tradin' War Stories was playing. That song went really well with that footage. Dante Lam should get permission from the Shakur estate and play that in the end credits of ORS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted January 21, 2018 Member Share Posted January 21, 2018 http://www.wellgousa.com/coming-soon/operation-red-sea Well Go USA has picked up Operation Red Sea for North American release. It gets a limited North American theatrical release on February 23, 2018. List of theaters here - http://www.wellgousa.com/theatrical/operation-red-sea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member DragonClaws Posted January 26, 2018 Member Share Posted January 26, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted February 13, 2018 Member Share Posted February 13, 2018 Recently watched Wolf Warrior 2, and here's a second movie in which the Chinese Navy dares to sail where the U.S. and other foreign navies will not, because the situation is too dangerous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member laagi Posted February 13, 2018 Member Share Posted February 13, 2018 2 hours ago, whitesnake said: Recently watched Wolf Warrior 2, and here's a second movie in which the Chinese Navy dares to sail where the U.S. and other foreign navies will not, because the situation is too dangerous. What's up with these recent China to the rescue movies... Seriously!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted February 13, 2018 Member Share Posted February 13, 2018 Here are a few articles that explain somewhat what's going on with these recent Chinese nationalistic movies: http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1000680/how-blockbuster-war-movies-capture-chinas-changing-nationalism http://chinafilminsider.com/screen-china-nationalist-films-heat-frigid-summer-box-office/ https://qz.com/1051519/chinas-military-loves-patriotic-movies-so-much-it-opened-its-bases-and-fighter-jets-to-filming-for-sky-hunter/ and a review of Operation Mekong - http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/operation-mekong-review-1201897197/ in which "With unembarrassed jingoism, Lam decorates his Chinese characters with every virtue of innocence, bravery, fraternity, self-sacrifice, and nobility, while outside China's borders all is corruption, cowardliness, depravity, and ineptitude". Despite the over-the-top virtues of the Chinese in Wolf Warrior 2, I really did enjoy it as an action movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted March 2, 2018 Moderator Share Posted March 2, 2018 I got through watching this one recently, and for the most part it's hugely entertaining, until a tagged on final scene which, despite lasting just a few seconds, for some may be enough to sour everything that's gone before. I gave it the full review treatment here - http://cityonfire.com/operation-red-sea-2018-review/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Sheng Posted March 2, 2018 Member Share Posted March 2, 2018 1 hour ago, One Armed Boxer said: I got through watching this one recently, and for the most part it's hugely entertaining, until a tagged on final scene which, despite lasting just a few seconds, for some may be enough to sour everything that's gone before. I gave it the full review treatment here - http://cityonfire.com/operation-red-sea-2018-review/ Another perceptive and insightful review, ODB. Can't wait to catch this on the big screen on Monday... hope Lam improved his CGI work, some FX in OPERATION MEKONG looked outright lousy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted March 2, 2018 Moderator Share Posted March 2, 2018 3 hours ago, Sheng said: Another perceptive and insightful review, ODB. Can't wait to catch this on the big screen on Monday... hope Lam improved his CGI work, some FX in OPERATION MEKONG looked outright lousy. That's OAB to you. The CGI is hugely improved (no horrendous green screen helicopter work in sight this time), however it's still noticeably CG. I'd say the main difference is that in 'Operation Red Sea' it's not as overly distracting or detrimental to the entertainment factor as it was in 'Operation Mekong'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted March 9, 2018 Member Share Posted March 9, 2018 This is playing at a cinema ten minutes away from my house, so I'll be going to see it tomorrow more than likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator One Armed Boxer Posted March 9, 2018 Moderator Share Posted March 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Drunken Monk said: This is playing at a cinema ten minutes away from my house, so I'll be going to see it tomorrow more than likely. Damn, although I'd definitely never have said this before watching it, now that I have I'd have loved for the first time I checked it out to have been on the big screen! Enjoy, & look forward to hearing your thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted March 16, 2018 Member Share Posted March 16, 2018 The cinema near me often plays Chinese movies and I love going because it's usually just me in the theater. Maybe one or two other people. So, on Saturday I headed out to watch "Operation Red Sea". I get there and the lobby of the cinema is alive with Cantonese and Mandarin. There's not a non-Asian face in the place. I got to buy my ticket and...sold out. The showing after that? Sold out. I was so gutted! Needless to say, I've been unable to watch this one thus far. I'm hoping it's still playing this weekend but I'm not getting my hopes up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member mark187 Posted March 20, 2018 Author Member Share Posted March 20, 2018 This one was pretty good, Triple Threat is likely the only pure action film that’ll top it from this year! Overall though, I liked Operation Mekong a bit better, but this was still really good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted March 23, 2018 Member Share Posted March 23, 2018 https://www.screendaily.com/news/china-box-office-operation-red-sea-helps-set-new-world-record/5127205.article "With its gory and bloody battle scenes (which earned it a Category III rating in Hong Kong)..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted May 12, 2018 Member Share Posted May 12, 2018 Well Go USA is giving Operation Red Sea a North American Blu-ray release on July 24, 2018. News at http://cityonfire.com/dante-lam-packs-a-punch-with-his-new-film-mma/ Also, Dante Lam is being honored with the Daniel A. Craft Award for Excellent in Action Cinema at the 2018 New York Asian Film Festival. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted July 19, 2018 Member Share Posted July 19, 2018 Interview article - Operation Red Sea director Dante Lam and producer Candy Leung talk about the movie and more at https://screenanarchy.com/2018/07/new-york-asian-2018-interview-hong-kong-action-legend-dante-lam-and-producer-candy-leung-talk-operati.html At the bottom of the interview is a link to extended content and exclusive photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member NoKUNGFUforYU Posted July 24, 2018 Member Share Posted July 24, 2018 China doing what the USA has done for years now, along with Russia. Trying to get the hicks pumped up to send their kids off to a land war. I like action, but I don't like it when it leads to real life consequences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted July 27, 2018 Member Share Posted July 27, 2018 The best action film of 2018, so far? ABSOLUTELY. It took me about thirty minutes to invest in the film but once I was on board, I loved every minute of it. It’s literally a non-stop action-fest. Does it have an agenda? Maybe. Is it laughably patriotic? Oh yes. But can all that be set aside? Yup. If you like “Black Hawk Down” and it’s ilk, you will love this. The action is thick, fast and great to look at. Luxia Jiang (and others) get to shine. This is really, REALLY good stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member thehangman Posted July 30, 2018 Member Share Posted July 30, 2018 Saw it yesterday abit overlong but enjoyed it pretty gory aswell Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member D1 Ma Posted August 30, 2018 Member Share Posted August 30, 2018 I'm not a fan of military action films, so I'm not as crazy about ORS as some other viewers. Still, I have to admit it's a very solid effort. As a film, it's much better than Wolf Warrior 2. The cinematography is superb, the locations are great, the whole movie is a real eye candy. It would be a great achievement even for Hollywood, so to see a Chinese film shot on such scale is quite surprising. As far as visuals go, I can't praise it enough. The plot was a bit disappointing, somewhat predicable. The propaganda aspect was toned down, gore was justified, action was plentiful. Again, I don't care much for military action, so I wasn't that thrilled, although I enjoyed a little bit closer to the end of the film, involving two cars - one with the protagonists and another with the bad guys. Very, very HK/Chinese piece of action, IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member whitesnake Posted September 24, 2018 Member Share Posted September 24, 2018 The Federation of Motion Film Producers of Hong Kong has picked Operation Red Sea as its entry in the foreign language film Oscar category for 2018, because Dante Lam is a Hong Kong director, even though most of the cast is from China, and the movie only earned a lukewarm $1.1 million at the Hong Kong box office. Last year China's selection for its foreign language Oscar entry was Wolf Warrior II. Whatever happened to selecting films for quality, not box office success? It seems like China is poking the U.S. in the eye by picking Chinese propaganda movies for foreign language Oscar selections two years running. Technically, Operation Red Sea is a Hong Kong selection, but how much pressure did China put on Hong Kong to make this selection? (A Chinese entry for 2018 foreign language Oscar hasn't been named yet.) China now claims the South China Sea and tells the U.S. to stay out, and is making movies in which the U.S. and other foreign navies are too fainthearted for missions where only the Chinese navy dares to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Drunken Monk Posted September 24, 2018 Member Share Posted September 24, 2018 This film is nowhere close to Oscar worthy. It's a bizarre choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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