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Audio Format: DD 5.1, DTS 5.1
Video Format: Widescreen 2.35:1 (Anamorphic)
Languages: English, Mandarin
Subtitles: English, Chinese (T/S)
Region Code: 3
Year Made: 2008
Running Time: 108
Release Date: 05/30/2008
ESCAPE FROM HUANG SHI is a US$40 million Australia-China-Germany joint production, a World War 2 movie inspired by a true story. It starts with an Associated Press reporter, George Hogg (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), sneaks into Nanking, the Chinese capital city, and witnesses the killing carried out by the Japanese troops. He is then captured by the Japanese and is later rescued by Jack Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) a guerilla leader. George is arranged to stay at an orphanage, where he becomes the guardian of over 60 psychologically shattered war orphans, with help from an Australian nurse Lee Pearson (Radha Mitchell) and a wealthy widow Mrs. Wang (Michelle Yeoh). To protect the children from the advancing Japanese and conscription from the Chinese authority, George, Jack, Lee and the children start marching toward the snowy mountains and endless desert.
After finishing his duties fighting pirates as Captain Sao Feng in Pirates of the Caribbean 3, Chow Yun Fat takes on new responsibilities a guerilla leader. Before Michelle Yeoh fights it out with Jet Li in The Mummy 3, she takes some time off as a wealthy widow. Quite a respectable cast, if you ask us. That’s not all, because joining the two Asian superstars in this historical epic are Jonathan Rhys Meyers, fresh from romanticizing Kerri Russell in August Rush; and Radha Mitchell, tired out after fighting off monster reptiles with Michael Vartan in Rogue Crocodile.
Inspired by true events, the story’s protagonist is a young British journalist George Hogg (a very earnest Rhys Meyers) who leads a group of orphans to safety amidst the harsh nature conditions. He gets help in the forms of a courageous Australian nurse (a very gung-ho Mitchell), a Chinese partisan leader (Chow) and an aristocrat (Yeoh) who contributes to his mission to save this group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China.
The plot makes for great material, especially if it involves grand sweeping sceneries of the Chinese mountainous and desert regions. These you are going to get – the magnificently majestic visuals of China and the impressively splendid shots of the picturesque landscapes. It almost makes for a brilliant tourism video for the Chinese government.
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