Synopsis
China's first President Sun Yat-Sen and military commander Huang Xing lead the revolutionary Wuchang Uprising in a bid to put an end to the reign of the Qing Dynasty.
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Cast
- Jackie ChanHuang Xing
- Li BingbingXu Zonghan
- Joan ChenLongyu
- Jaycee ChanZhang Zhenwu
- Jiang WuGeneral Li Yuanhong
- Hu GeLin Juemin
- Ning JingQiu Jin
- Winston ChaoSun Yat-sen
- Yu ShaoqunWang Jingwei
- Yu-Hang ToXiong Bingkun
Recommendations
- 50
The New York Times
What should be rousing stuff - a republic is born! the chains of feudalism thrown off! - remains a kind of lavishly illustrated history lesson. Even the irrepressible Mr. Chan (this is his 100th film) seems subdued. - 50
San Francisco Chronicle
Chan, though, is very good in an all-dramatic role as a rebel general. There's lots of battle scenes, well-filmed, but only one martial arts scene. It seems out of place, but is most welcome nonetheless. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
If 1911 doesn't impress as historical spectacle, neither does it rank high as a Jackie Chan film. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Chan has not injected any of his playful charm or physical virtuosity into Wang Xingdong's and Chen Baoguang's insipid, poorly structured screenplay. - 40
Time Out
The star and co-director appears hopelessly out of place, trapped in a variety of awkward-fitting uniforms while forced to offer up laughably obvious battlefield advice ("Avoid gunfire!"). - 40
Movieline
1911 isn't propaganda but more a relentless, serious, fiercely nationalistic bit of historical mythmaking. - 40
New York Daily News
This drama, as traditional as its subject was epochal, is earnest and studious to a fault. Rarely has a film about upheaval felt more like a textbook. - 38
Boston Globe
It swoops, it pans, it noses around. The camerawork is almost as agitated as the editing. The directors seem to be trying to compensate for all the speechifying with as much random motion as possible.
