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Mountain Patrol

2004 · 1h 25m · PG-13 Action, Drama
Directed by Lu Chuan

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A moving true story about volunteers protecting antelope against poachers in the severe mountains of Tibet.

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98%
Tomatometer
Fresh

Breathtakingly beautiful, breathtakingly brutal and simply breathtaking.

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Fresh

Much of the time, the movie plays like a catalog of challenges sprawled over terrain so forbidding that you can't watch it without feeling a steep measure of awe.

Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News
Fresh

An epic story of white-knuckle tension in a setting of harsh, unearthly beauty, it's the kind of story Hemingway might have told if he'd made it to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Rotten

Instead of a laudable ecological crusade, the film feels more like a futile Captain Ahab obsession, with patrol leader Ri Tai (Duobujie) vainly chasing a poaching kingpin through the harsh, windy wilderness.

Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle
Fresh

One of the most beautiful and disturbing widescreen epics in last year's Seattle International Film Festival.

John Hartl, Seattle Times

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