Remember Saving Private Ryan? Remember how amazing the Normandy scenes looked the first time you saw them?
They were brutal, visceral but thrilling.
It was a neat bit of Spielbergian string pulling to make you feel horrified and yet genuinely excited – how many of you wanted to be in on that action, chopping down Nazis with your trusty browning?
With Lu Chuan’s City of life and death, the same visceral, blood curdling reality of war awaits you, but thanks to some truly amazing auteurship the last thing you’ll feel is elated…
