Jin Gang Chuan

I couldn't find any factual basis of the story lines of this movie. Other than the fact that the Chinese flooded across bridges to fight UN troops along with the North Korean instigators which the intro of the movie lied about. I wouldn't waste your time watching this garbage. The cinematography did look nice which is a testament to how far special effects have come. Most of it appears to be CGI.

The human bridge story line seems to be made up and based on a 2016 incident of North Korean soldiers doing something similar for a construction project.

Watched via prime, it's sad that they're pushing this trash on that platform.

Don't waste your time with this one.

It'd been interesting to see the Korean war from the perspective of the Chinese and North Koreans. In the first 30 seconds the film starts with a grotesque distortion of facts even the Chinese cannot be teaching to their people it is so badly out of synch with reality. About 5 minutes in I gave up hope of being entertained or any truth being portrayed in the depictions.

Chinese troops were sent in swarms, many of them lacking even the most basic gear, training or probably even an understanding of what they were dying for. That would have made a really interesting story. The garbage spilled out by this mockery of history is not worth wasting time on.

If it wasn't made in todays situation, I would surely have given that movie a 7 or 8 of 10. But in todays political situation the whole scenario, the heroism that is told about North Korea in China that days, plus the end of the movie is today unbearable to me. The today's human rights situation tells a close story and at the date the movie plays, Mao Zedong was about to build up the communistic system in China, which also lead to the North-Vietnam war in consequence. America didn't succeed in Vietnam we know. It was a disaster which better wouldn't have happened. But this movie is also the wrong way. It shows that masses of people which are loyal enough to their country are heroes when giving their live for the communism. That's the message of the movie. And it's simply unbearable today. Praise to the director and actors, ... but no, not! I even wouldn't recommend it to Chinese people.

This movie is about China's involvement in the Koran war with an ill-equipped army. The cinematography is excellent as were the majority of the actors. The pacing was a little slow, but this was due to the strategy involved, and not the directing. However, some scenes were used more than once, which was odd. One commentator wrote that this movie is propaganda; well, what does that make Saving Private Ryan and Pearl Harbor, if not over the top propaganda war movies?

Very good war drama. Has good action and I love how they filmed from both the POV of foot soldiers, the American warplanes, and the gunners side to get a close-up of what it was like on the battlefield for each perspective.