Review of 1911 - Revolution (2011) by Dreskar — 02 Aug 2012

I am giving it a 6, mainly because the movie is rather enjoyable, especially if you are interested in history but it makes the cardinal mistake of too much information crammed into too little time. The movie would have definatly benefited from being split into two films and allowed for the story to better pace itself.

As it stands it is almost a crash course in the fall of Imperial China and the rise of the Republic of China later to be replaced by one failed Imperialist movement, and then transformed to communism.

The movie itself follows the uprisings trying to overthrow the Qhin Dynasty and the political struggles of the falling government as well as the rising one. The action is frantic and adds to the chaos of battle, yet you can still manage to tell what is going on though unfortunately allot of subtitles tend to fly by talking about battles and events we never get to see.

Again as said earlier a two-parter would have been much better to tell this epic story.