Review – 1911

Like many other audience members on this side of the Pacific, I was drawn into this movie by Jackie Chan. However, I enjoyed it despite the fact that it isn’t exactly a typical Chan picture. Instead, it tells the story of the Chinese revolution that did away with the bureaucratic monarchy and established a provisional democracy. As this is the last period in history that both Communist and non-Communist Chinese people seem to agree on, the subject makes for interesting filmmaking. I don’t know all that much about the subject, so this was a good lesson for me in addition to being an entertaining action movie. Mildly amusing