Under the Light

2023 [CHINESE]

Action / Crime / Drama / Thriller

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 53% · 1 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 53%
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 953 953

Plot summary

Officers Su Jianming and Li Huilin investigate a crime involving wealthy businessman Li Zhitian. As clues emerge, the investigation becomes more and more like a game of chess.

Director

Yimou Zhang Photo
Yimou Zhang

Top cast

Joan Chen Photo
Joan Chen as He Xiuli
Chu Bu Hua Jie Photo
Chu Bu Hua Jie as Yellow-haired hooligan
Yajun Xu Photo
Yajun Xu as Liu Bo
Zhengjun He Photo
Zhengjun He as Wen Hui
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1.15 GB
1280*478
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 2
853.75 MB
1280*544
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 1
2.36 GB
1920*716
Chinese 5.1
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 3
1.55 GB
1920*816
Chinese 2.0
NR
Subtitles cn  
24 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 6

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by SulaMercy 2 / 10

Cliche and unbelievable

The film is laughably cliche and unbelievable.The main character always manages to arrive one second too late to move the plot forward. The cops always show up just at the right time to save the day.It apparently took Zhang Yimou 5 years of back and forth with the censors for this film to finally come out. I don't know how much the censors are to blame, but the characters are laughably cliche, there's no complexity in their personalities, they're either total villains who are ultimately punished by the law or are complete heros with no moral qualms. A Disney movie has more complexity.The female characters are sad, there's only one real female character, the others are just there to talk about the men. The film does not pass the Bechdel test.
Reviewed by EasonVonn 1 / 10

A truly rape To female

The biggest criticism of the entire film is that the portrayal of female characters is too one-sided as well as stereotypes, the only time Mrs. Zheng Gang in the film to create a hint of a less one-sided image or based on the reality of patriarchal social oppression is given, and finally oriented to the image is not enough to have a real female liberation strength, and even for this love and loyalty to the relationship all of a sudden lost.Shooting techniques simply let people think Zhang Yimou is not AI instead. From beginning to end is Hollywood positive and negative, character facial close-up dialog, let a person in the film sleepy. Lens color and lens construction completely did not inherit Zhang Yimou's previous imitation of Kurosawa Akira regressed tremendously.Suspense story in front of the storytelling is okay, but the more to the back of the more is the same old trick, a prediction of the outcome of the overturning of the emergence of a new result, the whole set of formulas. Not a very good storytelling technique.Finally, when it comes to politics, the intentions of this movie are clear, aimed at the 00's needless to say, want to all rely on peers to set off is it hahahahahaha.
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