The Eight Hundred

2020 [CHINESE]

Action / Drama / History / War

33
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 78% · 27 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 78% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.7/10 10 8262 8.3K

sino japanese war siege second sino-japanese war (1937-45)

Plot summary

In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.

Director

Hu Guan Photo
Hu Guan

Top cast

Hideo Nakaizumi Photo
Hideo Nakaizumi as Konoe Isao
Chen Yao Photo
Chen Yao as He Xiangning
Ryan Zheng Photo
Ryan Zheng as Chen Shusheng
Ethan Juan Photo
Ethan Juan as (as Jingtian Ruan)
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.28 GB
1280*534
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
25 fps
2 hr 22 min
Seeds 16
2.63 GB
1920*800
Chinese 5.1
NR
Subtitles cn  
25 fps
2 hr 22 min
Seeds 24

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Erik_Surewaard 7 / 10

Before watching this movie, I recommend you first read up on the events surrounding the "Sihang Warehouse Defense".

This movie is internationally known as "The Eight Hundred". It is based on true events during the Japanese invasion of Shanghai, whereby the focus is put on the famous "Defense of the Sihang Warehouse".The "Sihang Warehouse" is located directly next to the foreign concession of Shanghai. This means that all attacks by the Japanse army on the soldiers in the warehouse, are in direct view of all people watching from the concession. As such, many reports are available of the historic events surrounding this battle.Since the movie often switches back and forth between different events, it is important to know how all events fit in the overall battle. It is therefore that - before watching this movie - I highly recommend you first read the Wikipedia article titled "Defense of the Shihang Warehouse". In my opinion, reading this Wikipedia article will not spoil the movie, but instead provide the necessary background for watching this movie. Amongst others, it explains why the chinese soldiers were dressed the same as german WW2 soldiers.Due to the movie not having a main character, you as a viewer will have an additional challenge of understanding what's going on. During some events I had the idea someone was put center stage, all but to find out that he is not seen for the next 15 minutes or so... I think it would have been very beneficial if the movie would have for instance a voice-over - e.g. Someone who was there - whom explained what was going on.One big plus of this movie are the extremely detailed scenes. It is just a 'feast for your eyes'. If you for instance pause the movie, you often will be able to discover details (in the background) which you wouldn't have seen otherwise. Overall, the result is a very convincing portrayal of Shanghai during WW2.In coming to a conclusion, I think we have here a movie that misses some necessary ingredients to make the viewer fully understand what is going on. The director and writers were probably so accustomed to the historic events, that they assumed that everyone else would also be as aware as they are... Why on earth they did not chose for having a main character is beyond me. As such, this movie is often a challenge to watch. Especially the first 15 minutes, I personally was left in limbo of what exactly I was watching. Giving it a second try after reading up on Wikipedia helped me enormously.Taking everything into account - including the fact that this movie learnt me quite some new and interesting things about WW2 - I decided to score this movie with 7.3/10. Resulting in an IMDb score of 7 stars, I think this movie could have easily gained 1 (or even 2) additional stars if more effort was put in guiding the viewer better in understanding the overall situation. I recommend to first read the Wikipedia article "Defense of the Sihang Warehouse"
Reviewed by Genkinchan 8 / 10

Highest Grossing Eight Hundred

I seldom review a Chinese movies I try my best here to give you an honest review..I don't what is the propaganda about where the movie tries to glorify Chinese as brave and bold but as I finished watching the movie I went to you tube to do more research and reviews . What I finds out amazed me the whole river set was actually built from scratch whilst the building too.. it was real building and people in it not done green cgi screen.This is the first impressive Chinese mainland movie that use impressive CGI the action was top notch, it even shows the stronger side of Japanese which is much more superior in their battle wits which rarely you get to see in a Chinese movies, most of the Chinese Mainland or even Hong Kong Movies till now still depict Japanese as inferior during the WW2 periodThe movie also have some touching moments such as the last battle scene moments, the suicide bombing moments overall , the ending crossing the bridge moments etc.There are some down point too may be due to the director tries to fit in over more than 30 characters all in the movie with given time.. most of the character makes it very forgettable and hard to resonate too the director should cut down to 10-12 characters so that we can blend in with more characters.Overall it was a great movie.. no wonder the movie is the highest grossing movie in the world year 2020.
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