Sacrifice
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  • Starring: Bingbing Fan, Xiaoming Huang, Xueqi Wang, You Ge
  • Summary: A story of epic revenge, Sacrifice focuses on a power hungry general who wipes out his rival along with his entire family, save for one newborn. The infant is protected by the doctor who delivered him and raises him as his own, hoping to mold him into his own instrument of retribution. (Samuel Goldwynn Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 11
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  1. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Maggie Lee
    Jan 12, 2011
    90
    Chen's direction is his most staid yet, but the riveting story speaks for itself.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Lewis
    Jul 26, 2012
    75
    Ultimately, the film works because the doctor's relationship with the general - and both of their relationships with the doctor's young boy - is just as complicated as the action-packed coup.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    Jul 26, 2012
    50
    It's tough to care about characters who spend most of their lives obsessing over the violent deaths of others.
  4. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Mark Olsen
    Jul 27, 2012
    50
    Sacrifice is mostly a melodrama concerned with deception, betrayal and just what makes a family. It is handsomely done and well-acted, but it lacks real energy or purpose.

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  1. equinoxia
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    i believe that fully 60% of all chinese movies are what they call "sweeping dramas" or "epic dramas." why is that? it all gets to be a bit much sometimes, don't you think? i wish they would stop taking themselves so seriously...lighten up, for god's sake. which pretty much is the sum total of my feelings on this movie. that, and i'm a Bigbig Fan of Bingbing Fan.… Expand

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