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Kong ($460 million), itвЂ™ll be the fourth-biggest global grosser of 2021, behind F9 ($714 million), ChinaвЂ™s Detective Chinatown 3 ($690 million) and ChinaвЂ™s Hi, Mom ($840 million). The film may pass The Eight HundredвЂ™s entire $471 million lifetime cume by tomorrow as it tries to start its second week over $500 million worldwide. ThereвЂ™s nothing as jaw-dropping as that filmвЂ™s sequences of doomed Chinese soldiers holding off a key warehouse while wealthier Chinese citizens watch as if itвЂ™s an eveningвЂ™s entertainment from across the street. That said, this is far more of a rah-rah epic than last yearвЂ™s grim and comparatively self-critical The Eight Hundred. It has more interest in making China look good than in making America look вЂњbad.вЂќ The film treats American soldiers as mere opposition forces who care about their own men. ItвЂ™s arguably no more jingoistic, at least until the final montage, than (offhand) Pearl Harbor or We Were Soldiers. I would argue the вЂњpropagandaвЂќ elements only really rise to the surface in the final moments, with the rest of the film being a pretty dry war picture with some impressive scale and action scenes. Yes, it is arguably вЂњstate propaganda,вЂќ in that it revels in the notion of the Chinese army beating back American forces in the early days of the 'War to Resist American Aggression and Aid Korea.' The victory decimated General McArthurвЂ™s declarations that the war to aid South Korea in beating back invading North Korean forces would be вЂover by Christmas.вЂ™ So, no, this isnвЂ™t a nominal military engagement being repackaged as a big-deal historical event. ThereвЂ™s a mid-movie sequence that just transitions for around 28 minutes from one kind of peril (tank fights!) to another (knife fights!) with a remarkable relentlessness that would make George Miller nod in approval. Some of the effects are a little dodgy (especially in terms of explosions and vehicle destruction), but the practical stunt work and fight scenes are pretty damn impressive. It looks spectacular and you can see the money on screen with the copious mass battle sequences and intricate action set pieces. I actually saw the film last night at IMAX, so I can certainly see why itвЂ™s performing well. This new actioner is merely the next mega-bucks Chinese blockbuster. That IMAX-worthy epic, about scientists and soldiers trying to move the Earth itself out of the way of a quickly growing sun while avoiding a head-on collision with Jupiter, earned $699 million. Jing also co-starred in the early 2019 sci-fi disaster flick The Wandering Earth.

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Fun fact: Tsui Hark directed two Jean Claude Van Damme movies ( Knock Off and Double Team) during that mid-90s period when the Muscles From Brussels was making a real effort to work with some of China and Hong KongвЂ™s finest action filmmakers (see also: Ringo LamвЂ™s Maximum Risk and John WooвЂ™s Hard Target).Д«attle At Lake Changjin stars Wu Jing and Jackson Yee, (whose Wolf Warrior II, a $30 million, ultraviolent action movie riff on Tears of the Sun and Rambo: First Blood Part II, earned a colossal $854 million in China in summer 2017) and Jackson Yee (whose crime melodrama Better Days earned $239 million in late 2019). The film is directed by Chen Kaige ( Farewell My Concubine), Tsui Hark ( Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back, which earned $249 million in China in early 2017) and Dante Lam ( Operation Red Sea, which earned $579 at the Chinese box office in early 2018).