2020 · action · drama · war
The Eight Hundred
Directed by Guan Hu2h 27m2020
In 1937, eight hundred Chinese soldiers fight under siege from a warehouse in the middle of the Shanghai battlefield, completely surrounded by the Japanese army.
Our read: The Eight Hundred (2020) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · drama · war entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme action / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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