This is a big bad fantasy movie, played by famous international stars, screen written and produced by Luc Besson, directed by Matthias Hoene. The film stars Ni Ni as Princess Su Lin, Uriah Shelton as Jack, Mark Chao as Zhao.

There are two basic laws in Chinese and Western co-filmed movies. One is that the Chinese and Western co-filmed movies must be box office bombs; the other is that the beautiful Chinese must fall in love with the Western white man, no matter how worthless the Western white man is. Luc Besson has disappointed us because we want him to refute the two laws, and he failed. In this Chinese and Western fantasy film, neither we see fusion of Chinese and French style in the production, nor do we get the feeling of fantasy.

The story of Warriors Gate is very simple, similar to the game that we beat the beasts and get upgraded. Here the story changes the background with Oriental game elements, and the warrior defeats the cruel and gets the love of beauty. Anyway, it is very funny that only there are seven warriors guarding China who is never lack of human resources. As the hostile force of China, as wicked as possible, the Cruel give us the simple stupid impression. As the leader of the Cruel, Arun, has nothing but tough muscles and ugly face, and the rest of the Cruel tribe are nothing, simple-minded and low IQ. But, this is the very incapable villain leader who sneaks into the Chinese Royal Court to poison the six warriors to death and the King. That is really unacceptable.

The culture shock in The Warriors Gate.

It is hard to tell a simple story. The difficulty lies in the eastern and Western culture difference. The traditional Chinese culture with a long history, formed in the time river, has its own unique system of mythology and aesthetic system. If you want to seriously tell well the story with Chinese context, you must first understand the characteristics and the essence of Chinese culture and aesthetic. In the absence of systematic understanding and experience of ever-lasting cultural heritage with history of thousands of years, it is difficult to talk about the story of the oriental culture. The film tries hard to tell a good story, but tells a story with Oriental background and the protagonist in Western way of thinking. That’s really awkward.

The film has the beginning of conventional pattern. A decadent hoody accidentally opens the door to another world, and involves in the struggle between good and evil in the oriental background. A beautiful Princess is kidnapped by the leader of the Cruel tribe, and with the warrior who protects the Princess the hoody launched the way to beat the evil forces and rescue the princess. This routine sounds familiar. You will feel more familiar with the routine in another way that the Dragon captures the Princess, and the King offer a reward to ask for warrior to save the King, and there will always be a mysterious hoody who leads the team to kill the Dragon and eventually save the Princess, and the King marry the Princess to him. See the happy ending? Even young Kids know such old western fairy tales. The Warriors Gate just changes the background to oriental background, and the Dragon to a Cruel leader.

Well, even if background is changed, Luc Besson deserves his reputation if then the story is well told, but he never really understands Chinese and China. Take the representative character in the story for example, the Princess who need rescue is the princess in fairy tale of Westerners imagination, and Westerners think that the princess should look like that and dress like and live like that. But, in the traditional China, women were gentle and graceful, and they seldom went out of the door, unless they had no alternative but to. Even women soldiers in ancient China were all restrained and contained. Even the very famous and powerful women in history mostly followed the ancient rites, left the involuntary publicity, stayed restraint and courtesy. The Chinese female characters were directly related with the history and culture. But, in the film, the Princess looks Oriental on the face, but Western inside. The word, ABC, i.e., American Born Chinese, is really a reasonable word to describe her. Since the mind of the film remains Western it is meaningless to make a real Chinese to play the role. A real Chinese who grows up in China, without the long-term influence and impact of western culture, has no the Western way of thinking, has an in-depth understanding of the Chinese people, is doomed to play a false play in the film.

In addition to the role of the princess, the witches, monsters, devil, and so on, that appear in the film, don’t exist in the Chinese mythology system. Except the Chinese looking, their inherent natures have nothing to do with the Chinese culture. They are just Chinese culture and Chinese characters imagined by the western consciousness. These really embarrass the audiences.

An obvious western story is mechanically told in the Oriental back ground. Those undoubtedly Oriental characters stiffly live in the Western thinking style. The film makes Western audiences think that the people in the film are not vivid, and Oriental audiences have no sense of identity. All these make the film a big box office bomb.

Chinese girl Li Bingbing does not appear in Resident Evil: final chapter movie, which is already opened to public. It seems really wasted that Li Bingbing was touched the thigh in Resident Evil: Retribution, and she gained not much for the sacrifice, not a great reputation, not a play part in the final chapter. The official had said that Li Bingbing would once again play Ada Wang in the series film, and no one was more suitable than her for the role. Li Bingbing who Played Ada Wang said that the fifth was not very satisfactory and she hoped that the final outcome would be good shot.

As the last film of the series, Resident Evil: End chapter has been released in the world, which is an end of an era. From the first film in 2002, six films have gone through fifteen years. Although the style has long been deviated from the game, a lot of fans of the film are expecting this end. The return of goddess Alice and the end of the series of Resident Evil will be the biggest hope that fans are really interested. From the first Resident Evil in 2002 to the last of 2017, actress Mira Jovovich is killing zombies in the film for fifteen years. Mira Jovovich’s eyes are more and more determined and firmed, and her action is still neat, without the slightest dragging water. However, from the scores of the various film critics website, Resident Evil: final chapter is a barely qualified film, not good, but reaching the passing line. But we do not know if there are love points for this end story.

Resident Evil series films are very popular in the world, and greatly influence the zombie films. It is hard to say how successful the single film is, but they as a whole are absolutely regarded as the most influential zombie series. The impact of the series on science fiction horror film cannot be underestimated. The Western zombie culture mainly comes from the folk myths of Haiti, and the zombies in the Haitian mythology tradition are a bit like Chinese witch culture. These zombies are manipulated by the witchcraft master, and they have no free will. In the Western movies, there are so many terrorist elements, like science Frankenstein, vampire, zombie, etc. Zombie is the only element that is directly put on the screen without a profound literary tradition, and the zombie films go viral, sweeping the world.

Resident Evil: Retribution review.

I have to say Resident Evil: Retribution is a disappointed hodgepodge film. Film director Paul Anderson seems completely out of control. In his series films, the core is his wife Millla Jovovich, and the second are a variety of zombie monsters and visual spectacle fighting scenes. When making the film, Paul Anderson just films the beautiful and handsome postures shows of Milla Jovovich who fights from start till end, and gathers all acquaintances who appeared in the former serie, and the job is done.

When you see the biochemical monster, you think you are watching Godzilla.

When the rescue team member is sawed death, you think you are watching Saw.

When you see the little girl is captured by the monster and is kept in the film package, you think you are watching Alien.

When you see cloned people being produced in the flow production line, you think you are watching The Matrix.

When you see Alice climbing the wall, you think you are watching Batman.

When you see Jill holding the stick, you think you are watching Depredador 2.

When you see Rain forcing the bullet out of the body, you think you are watching Wolverine.

When you see the last monster siege, you who spending 1.5 hours on the film finally are collapsed, you think you are watching the Hobbit?

Such a commercial hodgepodge film that doesn’t get exactly the results desired makes people sick. And, the passionate melody doesn’t change from start to end, even when Alice is badly beaten by Jill with her elbow and other people’s hearts are broken, which really makes people uncomfortable.

So, when the audience watch Resident Evil: Retribution, they only need to understand the heroine Alice is a good person, and her partners are also good, and those people against her are bad, and a variety of common zombies and large zombies and monsters are enemies, and the rest is to vent the brain and experience the movie’s visual bombing that pleases the audience.

The Crusades was a famous religious movement in history. Generally speaking, the Crusades was a failure, and the main reason was the complex social composition of participants, non-unified weapons and equipment. The Crusades made great suffer to the East and West Europe, caused huge material losses, but they had a long-term effect on the European civilization. The Crusades actually opened the door to the East Trade, promoted the development of Western science and technology. It found an outlet for the civil war in the Christian kingdoms of Europe, drove the European continent onto the cosmopolitan Road, made them open their eyes to the broader external world.

The external world included China in the Far East. The Westerners began to learn from China to make incendiary agents, gunpowder and firearms, began to use a compass, replaced rowing by sailing ships in Navy new development, and valued the status and role of the light cavalry. Literature and poetry flourished. In the knowledge dissemination caused by the Crusades, the positive role outweighed the negative effects.

Although the positive role of China in the knowledge transmission during the Crusades is acknowledged, there are few movies that relate the Crusades and China. Outcast is the only one by far. Outcast, a 2014 American-Chinese-French action film, directed by Nick Powell, stars Nicolas Cage, Hayden Christensen, Liu Yifei, Ji Ke Jun Yi and Andy On. The Crusades soldier Jacob tortured by war is stranded to the Far East to escape the painful memory of the Crusades war. But he is engaged in the imperial throne inheritance dispute between the princes, again he is in war to protect the younger prince and his sister, the princess. That may be the most dramatic and sad love story that the soldier travels so fast to meet and love the princess, then parts alone. The film gives an implicit background that it happens in China.

The Crusades soldier travels at the wrong time and in the wrong place.

From the history truth, we can find some stupid mistakes the film makes.

First, the Crusades soldier would never travel so far. According to history, the Crusades broke out during 1096 to 1291, during which was the Song Dynasty in China, or the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) and the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). Unlike the Han dynasty (202 – 220B.C.) or the Tang dynasty (618—907), the Song Dynasty the territory was relatively smaller. And the neighbouring countries were bellicose and tough, and war broke out everywhere. On one hand, the Crusades went as far as within Europe. On the other hand, the Song Dynasty didn’t directly adjoin the Central Asia, not to say the West Asia. It made it hard to go to China from the West through land way. What about the seaway? That was impossible for the Westerners because of their poor navigation technology and shipbuilding level.

We don’t know exactly when the Crusades soldier goes to China in the film. Even he comes in Southern Song Dynasty that has the relatively bigger territory, and he never has the chance to arrive in China. Look at the territory map of Southern Song Dynasty below. The coastal green part was the Southern Song Dynasty territory.

Second, the Jinyang City once existed, but it couldn’t wait until the Crusades soldier arrival. The Jinyang City was located in nowadays Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, China. At the beginning of Song Dynasty, Jinyang City was not under the reign of Song Dynasty, but Song Dynasty always wanted to take it into its own territory. In 979, the second emperor, Emperor Taizong, led his army to conquer Jinyang City. The rampart was tall and tough, and the enemy was skillful, which made the Song army suffer heavy casualties. After the occupancy of Jinyang City, Emperor Taizong decided to destroy the city and the rampart completely. For one hand, he vented his resentment, and for the other hand he thought that such a city easy to hold but hard to attack would give the chance for other persons to claim Emperor in the city. So, the city vanished in 979. The citizens migrated to other cities under the Emperor order. In the film, the Crusades soldier has to go back to 979 through time travel to meet the Chinese princess in Jinyang City. The map below shows the City gate of Jinyang City in the film.

Third, the desert appears in the wrong place. In the film, the Crusades soldier and the Chinese princess go into Jinyang City after the long escaping journey in the desert. But check the territory map of Southern Song Dynasty, you will find that Jinyang City was located in the area far from desert. The red circle shows the location of Jinyang City. It was a temperate continental climate, hot and rainy in summer, cold and dry in winter, and it would never become desert.

Fourth, the Western caravan appears in the wrong place. In order to cope with the previous and following plot about the desert journey, the Western caravan is present in the desert to give the Crusades soldier and the Chinese princess the chance to go into Jinyang City. But as mentioned before that the Song Dynasty territory was far from the West, the road is blocked. The Song Dynasty territory was surrounded by several bellicose and tough neighbouring countries. No one would take the chance of being robbed to go to China for the trade.

An Independence Day is an anniversary of a nation’s independence or statehood. Most countries observe their respective independence days as national holidays. The Independence Day of the United State, the most famous Independence Day maybe, is a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence 240 years ago in 1776 on July 4 by the Continental. It declared that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as a new nation, the United States of America, and were no longer part of the British Empire.

The Independence Day of the United State is also moved onto the screen. Independence Day: Resurgence, the sequel to the 1996 film Independence Day,is a 2016 American science fiction adventure film directed by Roland Emmerich. It tells the story that 20 years after that time in the 1996 film Independence Day, the returning aliens again attack Earth with an advanced and unprecedented force during the twentieth anniversary of humanity’s victory against them on July 4. A group of young men steps forward bravely to fights for human future, and again the aliens are beaten.

Here the Independence Day of the United State becomes the Independence Day of the earth, because 20 years ago the day of July 4 was set to be the humanity’s victory day against the aliens. Since then, the United Nations have collaborated on the Earth Space Defense (ESD), an international military defense and research organization, and developed hybrid technology reverse-engineered from the invaders’ in anticipation that they would return.

Roland Emmerich wants more to make Chinese money than to make the film.

One of the defense bases is the moon space controlled by Chinese. And the Chinese commander, Jiang Lao, is sedulously described as a man lack of consideration for the whole and complete situation, but only to blindly blame others. In the beginning, the pilot disobeys the Chinese commander to save the faulty equipment with his ship, and he come into the base with the look of what you can do about it when criticized by the commander. The intolerant commander and the tolerant American pilot make sharp contrast.

Since it is a Chinese moon space, Chinese must be the official language. But only the beginning has some opening remarks in Chinese, and then everything is in English. It is understood that after all it is an American film.

Many Chinese products appear in the film. The milk from China Mengniu Dairy Company Limited is too delicious, so two guys scramble for it before they go to the fight.

And they use QQ software from Tencent Company for instant messaging. When the network is down, a close-up image of a baby penguin that is the logo of Tencent Company is specially shown.

 This stacking of Chinese elements and products, somehow, makes the film the most evident Chinese theme in history. Every appearance of Chinese elements and products makes Chinese audiences laugh. Some people say the pilot beat the aliens after drinking Chinese milk, no matter how smart the aliens are.

“In fact, they are very interesting implantations in the film. It is very natural to have Chinese product there, because it is a Chinese moon space,” said Roland Emmerich. Truly it is. And it is the best explain for the implantations. But Roland Emmerich insisted that it was an expensive film, that is to say the film has many Chinese sponsors.

A beautiful Chinese girl, Angelababy, plays as Rain Lao, a Chinese pilot and lieutenant in ESD and the niece of ESD Moon Base commander Jiang Lao. Chinese girl is often seen in Hollywood films today, but under most circumstances, the Chinese actresses are just for eye candy. But, in the film, Rain, strong and brave, launches a counterattack against the aliens with her allies, which is really refreshing. In the fight, she is boldness and strong, and make the final efforts to protect the earth. The American pilot falls in love with her during the daily engagement. This is the typical American white man and Chinese woman love story.

Anyway, super director Roland Emmerich abruptly makes the American theme film into a Chinese theme film to tell the world that even though there are not aliens, the earth situation has changed, because the Chinese market is the big box office. You want to make Chinese money? Just use the Chinese elements and feelings.

But many Chinese opinion leaders suggest that the whole film expresses just one thing, i.e., the American confidence. The Aliens contact Americans first when they arrive on earth. The Americans act as vanguard. To some extent, the Americans think they have the ability to connect the world and win the final victory; thereby they can lead and unite the world including China, though the base is destroyed again and again. The film embodies the tolerance of the United States by showing every battle led by Americans. Roland Emmerich never expected the striking contrast of Chinese taking a place in the film and the audiences’ remarks, which is just the opposite to what Roland Emmerich wished.

Roland Emmerich not only ruins the film, but also ruins the Independence Day.

The film is under kinds of criticism, but mostly negative. 20 years could make an artist successful, but it also ruins a director. The film tells almost the old story that the aliens come, and the earth fights back, even the method to beat the aliens is the same as 20 years ago to carry a nuclear bomb to go inside the alien mother ship in a kamikaze suicide way. Roland Emmerich makes no progress in 20 years. In the plots arrangement, it seems that he wants to inosculate love, fiction, sadness and despair as a whole in just 2hours. And, the film has no central character, and the scene for every people is nearly the same.

No matter how hard Roland Emmerich tried, Independence Day: Resurgence is the bad sequel of the first. In the new century, the film industry is pushed forward by the progress of science and technology, especially the computer and information technology. The image design and visual effect of characters has been greatly improved, compared with the past. And the film making has constantly improved to catch people’s eyes. Nowadays, it is hard to make audiences to applaud for a film with special effects, powerful monsters, and heartquake actions, as for many years they have been in the infiltration of American films with all the pomp and circumstances.

Independence Day: Resurgence can never reproduce the success of 1996 film Independence Day. Roland Emmerich only wanted to make money by hook with the in the name of Independence Day. But, no one will pay for the third.

Wolf Warriors is the first Chinese 3D war action film in China. It was released on April 2, 2015. It is the first film directed by Wu Jing. Wu Jing also plays Sergeant Leng Feng, a marksman within the Chinese Special Forces who is initially tried in court martial and reprimanded for failing to obey a direct order in the field. Scott Adkins plays “Tom Cat”, an ex-US Navy Seal and now mercenary. Min Deng is an international broker, and his brother, Wu Ji, smuggles drugs in China and is killed by Leng Feng. Min Deng, shocked by the death of his brother, hires Tom Cat team to kill Leng Feng. The final fight is between Leng Feng and Tom Cat. Leng Feng succeeds in killing Tom Cat, and Min Deng is arrested. It is also the first film that Scott Adkins cooperates with Chinese director.

The film tries to show Chinese manliness. But there’re three plots that gives a big discount on the effects. The first is that the Chinese Wolf Warriors Special Forces with the advantage of numbers are somehow severely hit by the mercenary army in the woods. In the Hollywood film, it is an easy piece of cake for one man to fight 100 bastards. The second, Leng Feng is almost killed by Tom Cat in the final fight. Tom Cat already puts the knife on Leng Feng’s neck to cut the last breath off, but Leng Feng strikes back in an unexpected way and kills careless Tom Cat. The audiences might think that an unequal contest brings no honor to the victor. In the Hollywood film, the hero will proudly cut the enemy’s heads down, never so awkwardly. The third, when the Chinese Wolf Warriors Special Forces chase Min Deng to the border line, a large group of militants flee under the watchful eyes of the Special Forces armed with automatic weapons and armed helicopter. That’s unreadable. In the American movie, the militants will be completely wiped out with flying bullets. Anyway, it is one of the few films to show the Chinese power and manhood in recent years.

The beautiful Chinese girl serving in the army.

The head of the Chinese Wolf Warriors Special Forces is Long Xiaoyun, a beautiful Chinese girl, played by Yu Nan. In an army mainly composed of males, Long Xiaoyun is distrusted of her ability of leading the team in the beginning, and even the members of the Special Forces show disrespect. Undoubtedly, Long Xiaoyun overcomes many difficulties to be a competent team leader. When Leng Feng disobeys orders to kill drug dealer Wu Ji, and is about to be fired, Long Xiaoyun knows he is a good sniper, and holds her ground to recruit Leng Feng into her team.Long Xiaoyun is a people-reading leader, and she knows no man is perfect. She encourages her men to do their best but ignore their small flaws.

But, as a dignified military team leader, Yu Nan cannot act too female to be the leader, and her part relies more on eyes and face. The film does not give her much space, because she is just the role to join the plots together and push the story forward. She exists just for the story structure, not for the story content. It is good enough to be dedicated, and Yu Nan is doing the good job. The film successfully characterizes the Chinese girl as an elegant, intellectual, capable and experienced female military officer.

Compared to it that about 15% of US army are female, in the People’s Liberation Army, female members are still the minority. Especially in the combat troops, females are very few. The female members of the PLA mainly are non- combat personnel, such as communication soldiers, medical corps, orderlies, and so on. The reason is that American army weapons are more advanced and there is less chance of contact fighting, but in the PLA, the probability of contact fighting is much higher and females are limited. But military experts believe that the strength of female upper limbs is 60% of male upper limbs, and 70% of male legs, 80% of male reaction rate, and the logistic supply will increase 30%. Female and male soldiers might get in danger because female soldiers cannot catch up with male soldiers, so male and female mixed troops operate with low efficiency, because of which there are less female soldiers in the PLA than American.