Red Cliff

A rewatch confirms for me that this is indeed Woos best movie. It takes all of the best aspects of his early works and puts them in this historical epic and it is glorious. Where some of his action and dramatic tendencies (lots of slowmotion and sappy music) could almost be overused to the point of parody in some of his earlier works (still part of the charm) here it's kept to an almost minimum making the viewer even more engaged in the lore serious moments of the film. Not to say that this can't be silly and fun at times. Though it to me is one movie, this rewatch also kinda made me realise that part 2 is doing some lifting ad I enjoyed that quite a bit more...