Little Big Soldier
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Little Big Soldier |
| Original title | Da bing xiao jiang (大兵 小將) |
| Country of production |
China Hong Kong |
| original language | Standard Chinese |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ding Sheng |
| script | Jackie Chan |
| production | Jackie Chan Solon So |
| music | Xiao Xe |
| camera | Zhao Xiaoding |
| cut | Ding Sheng |
| occupation | |
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Little Big Soldier is in China and Hong Kong -produced direct-to-DVD - Adventure in 2010 with Jackie Chan and Lee-Hom Wang in the lead roles. The film celebrated its world premiere on February 17, 2010 at the Berlinale 2010 . In autumn 2010 it was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc .
action
In 227 BC BC, during the warring empires , even before the establishment of the Chinese empire, there were repeated fierce battles between the numerous small kingdoms for supremacy in the country. In one of these bloody battles between the warring armies of Liang and Wei , almost all of the soldiers fell. Only a few, like old Liang soldier Leung Kwok, survived. He had played dead with a dummy arrow and was able to escape the massacre. He notices that the hostile Crown Prince Weiguo has also survived, and he manages to take him prisoner. He intends to demand a reward for Weiguo in order to avoid further military service. However, the journey back to his army with the explosive prisoner becomes a struggle for survival for both of them, because Weiguo's brother, the Wei Prince Wen, supported by General Wu, intends to kill Weiguo in order to claim the throne himself. On the run they meet a dancer and later on impoverished homeless people, who make it clear how much the country is suffering from the ongoing wars. When they are captured by robbers from Loufan, they realize they must work together. While trying to get their hands on Weiguo, Wen kills the wife of the leader of the robbers. During the showdown in the cave in which Weiguo and Leung Kwok took refuge, Wu is killed and Wen commits suicide so that the robbers can get their revenge and spare his brother for it. In the end, Leung Kwok lets the prince go so that “at least one brother will survive”, but reminds him of his promise not to wage war against Liang again. Returning to Liang, he sees that Qin Kingdom troops have captured Liang and is shot by them.
reception
English speaking area
In the United States, the majority of the critics rated the film positively. The aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes evaluated 14 reviews, of which it classified 11 as more positive ( fresh ) and 3 as more negative ( rotten ). The share of positive reviews was 79% with an average rating of 6.2 out of 10 points.
German-speaking area
"But apart from the final roar of agreement, the film offers consistently entertaining and lovingly designed, albeit undemanding and clichéd mainstream cinema with Asian sounds, in which the usual outtakes for Chan during the credits should not be missing."
Computer game and Blu-ray
- On November 20, 2009, Jackie Chan announced in Beijing, together with Universal Culture Limited and EURO WEBSOFT , that a computer game based on the film would be released. At a conference, the characters of Chan and Wang were shown in-game. On January 26, 2010 it was released under the name Flash Little Big Soldier (Chinese: FLASH 大兵 小將). However, the game is only available in Chinese.
- The film was also released on Blu-ray Disc on November 15, 2010 .
Web links
- Little Big Soldier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Little Big Soldier at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Little Big Soldier on filmstarts.de, accessed on May 26, 2013.
- ↑ https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/little-big-soldier/ (accessed March 28, 2015)
- ↑ Little Big Soldier - review on moviemaze.de, accessed on May 26, 2013.
- ↑ Big Soldier Game on superchanblog.blogspot.de, accessed on May 26, 2013. (Page from Jackie Chan)