PLA Navy Marine Corps launch a hostage rescue operation in Ihwea and undergo a fierce battle with rebellions and terrorism. "Operation Red Sea " is a remarkable film. It describes the war scene by a realistic approach, that many people feel too bloody after watching the movie. However, the modern war is so brutal that it can not escape the fate of the heroic sacrifice even if the cruelty of the war is masked. It is an ordinary person, after all, not a Hollywood superman. It reflects the Chinese national defense concept and the main duties and responsibilities of the military in peacetime now. Some people have questioned that the story of saving a few hostage at the expense of special troops' life is unreasonable, because it's not worth to that! In fact, these fans should not understand the movie. Whether in the movie or in reality, the military will do so. This is not only to safeguard people's lives and property, but also to defend the responsibility and honor of an army. China is gradually gaining ground in the military action genre with Operation Red Sea the latest addition to its stable of war films with Nationalistic overtones.<br/><br/>Clearly a lot of money has been spent on this film not to mention, I suspect, the co-operation of the Chinese military. This war film has real scale, its epic in terms of the equipment utilised from ships to aircraft to military hardware. The battle scenes are equally big spread over a range of locations with varying scales and they are both incredibly frenetic and very, very visceral. Bodies of those impacted by weapons experience varying and evolving degrees of very bloody and often gory destruction. Its really not pretty at times but then war is an ugly business. <br/><br/>Indeed I'd suggest, as a promotional film, to get China's young enthusiastic about joining up, this film may be sending a mixed message. It suspect it may be intended to inform the public of China's determination to see off anyone challenging the nations interests, as much as it might be considered a tool for military recruitment. <br/><br/>As far as entertainment is concerned this film is impressive in many respects if you like military action flicks.The choreographing of the combat scenes shows real polish, co-coordinating often extensive and complex combat scenarios.Better still there's real variety in the breath and depth of conflict from mortar exchanges through to one on one sniper exchanges and more besides. CGI is used to good effect too, with slow motion "bullet and missile time". <br/><br/>On the downside a good number of the conflict scenes sometimes tend to devolve into spectacles more reminiscent of video games than real warfare. Weapons exchanges that would have ended a conflict quickly become unrealistically drawn out affairs. Alternately, large numbers of well armed opponents fall like wheat when faced with markedly smaller Chinese forces. Its understandable in a sense, establishing the veneer of the the heroic Chinese underdog but its does stretch credulity at times. <br/><br/>In summary a decent action packed war film. Yes there's Nationalistic stick but its the same kind you find in US and UK made war films and its no overdone just a little corny and amusing at times. Operation Red Sea does have subs too but this film is so heavily driven by pretty spectacular action its not really that big a deal. 8/10 from me.
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