Review: The laughs and the corpses pile up in the Chinese blockbuster 'Full River Red'
by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Mar 17, 2023
3 minutes
The knives are out and then some in "Full River Red," a murkily entertaining exercise in twist-twist-stab-stab from the Chinese director Zhang Yimou. Set over a long, dark and increasingly bloody night at a Song Dynasty military fortress, this 12th-century comic mystery opens with a touch of "Macbeth" — a visiting leader is found murdered in his bed, suspicion falls immediately on the guards — before peeling back layer after layer of Agatha Christie-esque puzzle-box intrigue. But Zhang's own authorial touch is unmistakable in the
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