Z21708
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The Battle at Lake Changjin is standard CCP pro-military propaganda. It portrays war as a patriotic and heroic endeavor with little to zero human nuance. The film has so many historical inaccuracies that it would make Black Hawk Down blush, and its action is over-the-top for a Korean War flick. The actual battle is drastically different from the one portrayed here, to the point where The Battle at Lake Changjin feels almost like a work of melodramatic fiction. The effects are uniquely mediocre for a movie that spent 200M USD on its budget.
The American soldiers are portrayed like you'd expect: violent, decadent and corrupt.
I could forgive all of this if The Battle at Lake Changjin were not so boring. I think this genuinely might be one of the more bland, generic war films that I've seen in recent years. If you want an actually good war film, watch All Quiet on the Western Front (the 2022 version) it's much better and focused more on the nuances of war and conflict.
The American soldiers are portrayed like you'd expect: violent, decadent and corrupt.
I could forgive all of this if The Battle at Lake Changjin were not so boring. I think this genuinely might be one of the more bland, generic war films that I've seen in recent years. If you want an actually good war film, watch All Quiet on the Western Front (the 2022 version) it's much better and focused more on the nuances of war and conflict.
