Courtesy of my sister's friend, we were able to watch this film via the DVD. It was about the battle taking place at Red Cliff between Cao Cao and Liu Bei. Part I set the scene leading the the eventual battle where Zhuge Liang visited Sun Quan to request that they joined forces to fend off Cao Cao.
Zhuge Liang met Zhou Yu - the well regarded general and strategist of Sun Quan. They plotted the Eight Trigrams Formation which led them to the first victory against the army of Cao Cao. However, the main battle would lie in the rivers with tens of thousands of ships from Cao Cao.
Typical of a war film, the show too lined with many bloody scenes of soldiers dying. For someone with a weak stomach or terrified at seeing blood, such scenes could be abit uncomfortable. I remembered watching 2 other epic films which also touched on plotting, killing and assassination - A Battle of Wits (墨攻) and The Banquet (夜宴). Both also had many scenes where one would see intricate sword fights and bloodshed. Such scenes could be slightly uncomfortable to watch when there were too many.
Back to Red Cliff, it was overall an interesting movie to catch. My friends practically waxed lyrical over it as during a dinner the weekend before, we spent a good hour discussing about the movie.
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