Red Corner

if you find this movie authentic, you should probably repeat some of your political and historical basics. although china has great history, nowadays it is totalitarian state, fearlessly controlled by the communist party. scenes like the arguing at the court during the trial or the chase ending up at the us embassy would be impossible in nowadays china or any totalitarian state. i think this is something unimaginable for someone who never lived in such regime. only trials meant to be public look like theatrical dramas, this one would be finished in five minutes. apart from the fact that this story could easily happen in the USA, just replace the party with some big corp.

This is a really boring and probably unrealistic movie. I don't believe the Chinese authorities would treat a foreign man accused of murder like they do i in this film. They would not refuse him to speak to an official from the US Embassy and they would not refuse him a lawyer from his own country. This is just a typical prejudicial way to represent China in American movies. That having been said I've never seen a movie before with such a promising premise, being made so utterly boring. Geres character is not very likable from the start so as an audience we really don't care what happens to him. We don't get to know him at all before he is arrested and he is acting completely irrational several times during the trial. The worst moment in his movie is when he, after having successfully escaped and gotten to the US embassy, out of some misguided stupid loyalty to his Chinese lawyer,gives himself up again to the Chinese authority, knowing they will shoot him even though he is innocent. At that point I was thinking: this guy is a moron with a death wish, just shoot him already so the movie can end. And during his escape he can outrun and out-bike-ride armed men, some of the on motorcycles. Give me a break. Don't waste time on this crap unless you have trouble sleeping. In that case this movie is the perfect sleeping pill. The

This film was interesting for me because I had been in China last year. I must say I was surprised to learn that most of it actually was done on a California set. (Maybe that explains why there was no smog. Bejing is seldom free of it.) I also like Richard Gere. But come on guys... The plot is pretty far fetched. I know nothing about Chinese courts. But it's unlikely there is much in the way of Perry Mason law or that a Chinese judge would be intimidated by or even allow American style courtroom histrionics. The mandatory Hollywood "humping scene" is about ten minutes into the film. But it serves a purpose inasmuch it anchors the subsequent plot. Interesting? Yes. Exciting? It has its moments and you just know that in addition to the mandatory "humping scene" there would be a mandatory "high speed chase." There is... With a bike and with a sprint across the roofs. It's an okay movie. But there are too many holes in the plot, too many stereotyped Chinese characters and too little understanding of Chinese culture in which losing one's temper is an unforgivable loss of face.

yes, this is the worst movie that I have ever seen. I have been to BeiJing, I know that most streets at BeiJing are wide and clean. In this movie, most chasing scenes were filmed in set up crowded streets. There was one scene when the policeman just washed his dish in toilet water. That is completely slandering. Chinese prisoners don't even get these kinds of treatment, not to say that he is from the states. This film has tried too hard to slander the Chinese government, in that effect, this film lost its story line to attract the audience. therefore I rated it 1

Smug and dull, Gere brings no sparkle and no real fear or tragedy and no-one else does any better. Most minor parts simply one dimensional, certainly not simply xenophobic but somehow no better than that in its dull thoughtlessness and passionlessness.

I've seen this film once and I think it's a really low-quality political propaganda sort of film!Firstly,I wanna say that Richard Gere has always held a huge grudge against China for he strongly supports Dalai Lama! He has spoken of China very meanly in many public occasions!So this film and the casts are very politically biased in the first place！Seconly,although I know that an ideological difference between China and the West has always been there, but shouldn't those film makers or artists have some basic understandings of what China is like or Chinese people are like when making a film about China? They should always keep in mind that their work may have great impact on the audiences! It's not a very nice thing to have such a strongly biased view of the others in our modern world! That's why I give it a very low rate!

Rambling drama about a US salesman arrested for a murder he did not commit, Red Corner has actual footage of Beijing convincingly mixed with the main shooting which gives the impression that the movie was actually made in China - and presumably with the approval of the Chinese authorities. Unfortunately, this is not really true, and the main Chinese lead - Ling Bai, whose name means 'white light' or 'white spirit' - was at Tiananmen in 1989 and emigrated to the US shortly thereafter. I've met students who lived in China at the time who absolutely refuse to discuss the situation back home; that Ling Bai does is testimony to her 'white spirit', and she really does steal the show from Gere here, in a kind of reverse Casablanca 'hill of beans' role. Whether the depiction of conditions in the Chinese judicial system is accurate or not, the movie does succeed in making the viewer understand that there are two views to almost anything, and that in China, as anywhere, power corrupts. Stacking the deck against consular officials is a nice touch, for these people are truly the cowards and turncoats the movie makes them out to be. The plot swerves from the inexplicable to the Orwellian to a love story (which does, it is true, sort of come out of nowhere), but the final scene on the tarmac does much to salvage that. Maybe Gere wanted to make the Chinese look bad, but they certainly don't need his help. Based on an incident that happened not in China but in Italy, Red Corner is viewable without ever coming close to being a great film. Its one claim to greatness is Ling Bai - she's absolutely fabulous.

Red corner is OK as a movie and the good actors are basically the Chinese cast in there. But after watching Red Corner,I basically regretted buying the DVD. Knowing that Richard Gere is a close friend of the Dalai Lama and making this movie starring him is basically a personal protest propaganda. I just find Red Corner is a very mean movie. Insulting. Even if the judicial system of a country is different than the other, I really think that it is nobody's business to make a movie to condemn that system. These are the works that is asking for trouble. I am born a Buddhist and I am a full fledge worshipper of Buddhism and the Dalai Lama, and I do yearly Pilgrimage. But I don't wave flags and harp about about another country's business. RIchard Gere should in fact think of handling business (anti-abortion bombings, gay bashings, racism)in his homeland before sticking his nose into other's. He admits being a buddhist , but his very attitude and protest and to actually act in a movie like Red Corner is very Unbuddhist, That really makes him and the other Steven Seagall 2 biggest hypocrites. I always wonder if "bashing" movies like this had a larger ulterior motives. You never see Mongolia or Thailand or China or Japan making movies that bashes the American system. Genghiz

This film revealed the Chinese justice system accurately. I am from China. I have experienced the Chinese justice, it favors the rich and man with connections with the officials, they can forge evidence to frame you, and you can do nothing about it disregard your strong evidence indicate otherwise. People here are nothing but slaves to the powerful red machine. Those corrupt officials always get away with it. Maybe that is why the Hong Kong counterparts want universal suffrage to guarantee their rights not being violated. This film tells the accurate story of how the Chinese Justice System works. The party officials control the lawyers and judges from behind and decide the outcome of the lawsuits.

Lord, not defending the Commies in China, but this movie had all the subtlety of a moving van. When you get Hollywood wackos pushing their own causes, as is our star, you get hackneyed bludgeoning such as this. AVOID!