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Cast
- Andy LauCai E
- Chow Yun-fatYuan Shikai
- Nick CheungLiang Qichao
- Daniel WuHu Shi
- Tony Leung Ka-faiFan Yuanlian
- Liu YeMao Zedong
- Chen KunZhou Enlai
- Chang ChenChiang Kai-shek
- John WooLin Sen
- Li QinYang Kaihui
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
A Chinese propaganda film without the heavy dogma and dour treatment that would have been expected a generation ago, Beginning of the Great Revival is a slick and lavish historical epic charting the 1921 formation of the Chinese Communist Party. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
A worthy history lesson on the founding of the Chinese Communist Party with only partially entertaining aspects. - 25
Slant Magazine
Beginning of the Great Revival is muddled, all right, but it's the helter-skelter speed at which it ticks off names and incidents, both in hopelessly confused action and on-screen text, that seems nearly unprecedented. - 20
The New York Times
It demonstrates that mainstream Chinese cinema can be as guilty of self-indulgent overstatement as anything out of the West. - 20
Boxoffice Magazine
There hasn't been such an egregiously self-congratulating piece of Communist propaganda since, arguably, the peak of '60s Soviet musicals, but Revival is so repetitive and po-faced that there's no kitsch value to be had.
