Deadline had described the movie as an “expensive slab of self-congratulatory movie propaganda”.
Still the online news site with entertainment industry news as its focus, has this to say: “Western viewers are thus offered an opportunity to see what it feels like to be on the opposite side of a good guy/bad guy narrative, one in which the villains are the Yank soldiers who just a few years earlier crucially helped save the world from Hitler and Tojo. So it’s an unusual feeling to watch a film celebrate the vanquishing of a Western military force by a theoretically far less capable opponent – a sneak peak, if you will, of Vietnam not too many years in the future”.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to the sequel – but I don’t expect to be able to watch it on YouTube until 3Q 2022. I am expecting another cinematic spectacle.
And the sequel to China's top-grossing film of all time, "The Battle at Lake Changjin", has made it to the top of the list of the most-anticipated films for the week-long Spring Festival holiday starting on January 31. "The Battle at Lake Changjin 2" now has the highest number of people indicating they "want to watch" it on film data platform Maoyan, with more than 510,000 votes as of Saturday.
This came just two days after its release date was announced as February 01.
Stills from the movie "The Battle at Lake Changjin":
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