The Warring States

2011 [CHINESE]

Action / Drama / War

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 46% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 46% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 4.5/10 10 590 590

Plot summary

Rival Chinese military strategists Sun Bin (Sun Honglei) and Pang Juan (Francis Ng) clash in this historic war adventure set during the Era of Warring States.

Director

Chen Jin Photo
Chen Jin

Top cast

Tian Jing Photo
Tian Jing as Tian Xi
Waise Lee Photo
Waise Lee as Xuanzhengshi
Kiichi Nakai Photo
Kiichi Nakai as Duke of Qi
Hee-seon Kim Photo
Hee-seon Kim as Empress Pang
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1.12 GB
1280*534
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
23.976 fps
2 hr 4 min
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2.3 GB
1920*800
Chinese 5.1
NR
Subtitles cn  
23.976 fps
2 hr 4 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by freydis-e 6 / 10

Wuxia with a twist

This could be pretty stock wuxia. The clever idea which makes it different and interesting is making Sun Bin (real life military strategist and author) a kind of idiot-savant character. I'm baffled that the handful of other reviewers, positive and negative, didn't seem to pick up that this was the idea. Sun is played brilliantly by Honglei Sun, and his performance makes the movie.Otherwise a fairly standard and well-made re-telling of historical events which sticks unusually close to the real history, without a whole lot of fantasy-battles and swordplay. The romance strand, however, is complete fiction, though it's never cloying and is odd enough so it's not too off-putting. I didn't like the ending though (also complete fiction). Someone's been watching too much CTHD.
Reviewed by qqml 4 / 10

False history

Sun committed suicide at the battlefield is total fabrication of history. Sun's acting is so stupid. Why the director wants to convey the stupidity of Sun?
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