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Mai wei (2011)
Suspend all disbelief and when you think you have, do it more so.
You watch simply to find out what absurd event comes next.
The film is a collection of unrealistic events which aren't portrayed in any artful manner, where the main characters outrun fighter plane bullets and the shells fired from battleships. Survive labour camps while practicing marathon running. And avoid serious injury from all manner of bullets in the unrealistic, but large-scale battle sequences. Deus Ex Machina is a constant device used to move the plot along as the characters are saved just-in-time by new events/characters in order to keep the story going. This is done repeatedly.
If you make it most of the way through you discover the plot to centre around what amounts to a yandere bromance between a Korean and his Japanese overlord during the time of the Japanese occupation of Korea. The type that could only come from overly-sentimental Korean cinema. 😂 (this is like Tae Guk GI, on steroids.)
When you watch the film it makes even less sense since the Korean character witnesses all sorts of atrocities committed against Koreans and Chinese at the hands of the oppressive Japanese, including his friend.
The only good thing about the film is that the battle scenes are worth watching once, perhaps as youtube clips. Even if they are not remotely realistic. And that it is one of the few times the Battles of Khalkin Gol are shown in film.
Honestly though it does offend the mind of anyone who thinks about things just a little. It has all the artistic merit of a Transformers film and can be summed up as simply as: 'splosions, Korean-Japanese antagonism, marathon running and bromance.