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Shanghai

2010

Mikael Håfström

John Cusack, Gong Li, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ken Watanabe ...

5.7

1,980

Thriller. Romance. Drama. Mystery An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Graham Fuller Screendaily	"Despite its rich visual evocation of the eponymous port city (...) Mikael Håfström’s film is undone by its tortuous plot, wooden characterisation, absence of narrative tension, and emotional nullity"	NEG
United States	Andrew Barker Variety	"Despite boasting a lush period setting and plenty of recognizable stars (...) this derivative, ploddingly plotted WWII-set thriller goes through all the motions of an old-school wartime spy pic with plenty of technical competence but zero panache"	NEG

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