Xuan ya zhi shang

The most intuitive feeling is four words: Flowing Clouds and flowing water. If "one second" is an attempt to simplify the road, then "on the cliff" is its interesting control group. The relationship and motivation of the characters are complex, and there are foreshadows everywhere. If you miss a paragraph, it is easy to miss important information. More than 95% of the time is a string on the people's mind, The remaining five percent are composed of small humor that makes people laugh and warmth in troubled times. The two works show both sides of Zhang Yimou's character, calm restraint and compassion. Such creative vitality and acceptance of new themes are really admirable. The dawn after darkness is not necessarily the real dawn, but the glimmer in the darkness must be hot and sincere. There is room for the rise of spy war stories, and the one who breaks the ceiling is above the cliff.

Plain story telling,awkward lines, wrong casting especially the girl who didn't look was Soviet union trained to me. She should be going to you the apple of my eyes studio but come wrongly to a spies studio. Story put about Country matter high at start,and yet end in a family and human feel which I find no connection. Messy chasing scene and yet the leader low IQ accuse the wrong person due to the strong evidence he ha.

The plot twists and turns in this movie of the Communists vs the puppet regime in Manchukuo. Set in December 1934, the story revolves around a true event. The sets are lovingly and authentically created to reproduce the romance of the period. Attention to detail is evident even to ensuring the cinema calendar is correct. I had to watch and rewatch the movie so many times to link the clues and details. Zhang's masterly cinematography would have certainly won him the Best Director Oscar had Jane Campion's Power of the Dog not been just as lush and powerful. Excellent, really Excellent movie. This will be a hard act to follow.

A film based on a TV series - XuanYa (Cliff). I think the meaning is quite obvious, considering it tells a story of special agents. Directed by Zhang Yimou, with a crew full of powerful actors. Especially Yu Hewei, for the character Zhou Yi. I cannot tell too much, otherwise it'd be spoiled, but his acting definitely reached to the master level in this film. He does have 20 some years of acting experiences with multi-direction roles. The film was well made, intense plots, beautiful scenes, unexpected twists, perfect lines and intricate emotions. Every actor was on their best state with the cameras filming to its precision. It was no more no less. I cannot praise it enough. Please go and watch!

Before this, I always thought "The Message" was the best one of this type. But Cliff Walkers impressed me with its story-telling. Back in 1940s, four of the specially-trained spies were sent to commit a mission--To protect an informant and send him out so he can tell the truth about the government to the world. However, there are moles among the four. So it's harsh for the real agents to do the task. Firstly, the acting is quite satisfying. Zhangyi played a senior spy in the movie, and his performance of being tortured was quite impressive.

Don't mind the 2 star rating one. Had a quick browse on other films he/she reviewed - lols - obviously not much taste in film. Great plot. Great actings. The whole point about spy is that spy doesn't have a "look". Yet with enough stereotypical film casting nowadays, there are people out there quickly pointing their fingers on the lead female actress not being "spy looking enough". Whatever the f that means.

When too much information is weaved/stuffed into such a visual spectacle in just two hours, then some details must be missed out during the (first-time) viewing process. I really enjoyed the strain and the thrill that the movie offered in Act 2 , but it took me some time to realize who's who and I had to carefully follow up on everybody's lines and subtext in Act 1 (even if I speak Mandarin). It also feels a bit abrupt when we see things are all settled in the end. Clarity is inevitably compromised when the narrative sometimes requires the audience to connect dots by themselves , in a blink of an eye.

The topic is a typical Chinese communists theme, i.e., how nationalists persecuted them and communists sacrificed themselves to win the ruling of the country. The movie was directed by the famous director Zhang yimo, who did it for Chinese communist authority, which is understandable. The directing is ok, and the movie theme is quite tense from the beginning to the end. However, the actors/actresses are mediocre. The ending is also typical Chinese movie technique, i.e. Use crying and background music to stir up emotion of audience.