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1911

The fall of the last empire.

2011 · 1h 39m · R Action, Adventure, Drama, History, War
Directed by Jackie Chan , Zhang Li

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Overview

China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of the Qing Dynasty.

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The Revolution will not be televised, Gil Scott-Heron once sang. Nor should it be filmed, we might add -- at least not as a costume drama with stirring speeches, an inspirational love story and gloriously heroic military charges.

Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail
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Earnest and studious to a fault. Rarely has a film about upheaval felt more like a textbook.

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News
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May be slow going for anyone not well-versed in this chapter of Chinese history.

Sara Stewart, New York Post
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Packed with so many characters and subtitled history lessons it barely allows its excellent main cast room to maneuver.

G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle
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What should be rousing stuff - a republic is born! the chains of feudalism thrown off! - remains a kind of lavishly illustrated history lesson.

Rachel Saltz, New York Times

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