Watch: 大上海 2012 123movies, Full Movie Online – Action superstar Chow Yun-Fat portrays real-life gangster Chen Daqi as he rises to the upper echelons of power, finding himself torn between the love of two women, the murderous plots of the secret service, and the looming threat of war..
Plot: Cheng, a young man who is set up by the chief of police, must leave the life he knows and Qiu, the woman he loves, to start again. After escaping prison Cheng quickly and violently moves his way up the ladder of Shanghais criminal underworld to become on the most powerful mob bosses in Shanghais history. But fame and notoriety take their toll when Cheng finds himself stuck between the looming Japanese army and the scheming local secret service. Matters are only made worse when he bumps into the love of his life QIU, along with her writer husband. Will love re-kindle in the dusk of an era?
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This movie is a mix of a war movie and The Godfather as directed by Quentin Tarantino. Little slow but good. I say B-
“Even if your battalion can take Shanghai in one day, they will never ever find you again.” In the 1930’s Shanghai was full of ruthless gangsters. Working his way to the top of the criminal underworld Cheng(Yon-Fat) he thinks he is untouchable. When he finds himself stuck in the middle of the invading Japanese army and the secret service he realizes he has more enemies then he thought and is left on his own. I was looking forward to this movie quite a bit. While I am not a huge foreign movie fan I am a big fan of the gangster genre. This movie was a little slow moving but still worth seeing. Being a foreign movie 80% of people will not watch so this won’t be a long one but the best way to convince people to see it is to go generic. This movie is a mix of a war movie and The Godfather as directed by Quentin Tarantino. If that won’t help you then I don’t know what else to say. Overall, little slow but worth watching. I did like it. I say B-.
Over the Top? Sure, but Entertaining!
Cheng Daqi (played as a young man by Huang Xiaoming and as an older man by the legendary Chow Yun-Fat) is a village boy in 1913 China who loves Ye Zhiqiu (Feng Wenjuan), an aspiring opera performer. A blunder on Daqi’s part lands him on death row, where he is taken under the wing of Mao Zai (Francis Ng), who subsequently brings him to Shanghai, where Daqi signs up with Hong Shouting (Sammo Hung), the town’s leading gangster. Fast forward 24 years and it’s 1937, and Daqi is himself a renowned gangster, blood brother of Hong; he is married to the lovely Bao (Monika Mok), but when Zhiqiu comes to town with her husband, the old sparks begin to fly again. But this is 1937, and the Japanese Imperial Army has designs on Shanghai, and all of China…. Well. The above synopsis only covers a part of the very complicated story of “The Last Tycoon,” and I wasn’t always certain about who was who and what was going on; that said, it’s a wild and action-packed ride – knife fights (with umbrellas), gun fights, fighter jets dropping bombs, things blowing up real good, all pushed up to 11. Getting to see Chow Yun-Fat get back to his filmic roots, all guns blazing and tenderness toward the women in his life, is a real treat, and of course, the anti-heroic, good bad guy is a wonderful role for him. I’m not sure that I understood everything that went on, but I enjoyed it to bits!
Original Language zh
Runtime 1 hr 47 min (107 min), 1 hr 58 min (118 min) (Singapore)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Action, Adventure, Crime
Director Jing Wong
Writer Koon-Nam Lui, Jing Wong, Manfred Wong
Actors Chow Yun-Fat, Xiaoming Huang, Sammo Kam-Bo Hung
Country Hong Kong, China
Awards 2 wins & 6 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A
Sound Mix Dolby Digital, Dolby Atmos
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera Arri Alexa, Zeiss Ultra Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses, Red Epic, Zeiss Ultra Prime and Angenieux Optimo Lenses
Laboratory Kantana, Bangkok, Thailand (prints)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Codex, Redcode RAW
Cinematographic Process ARRIRAW (2.8K) (source format), Digital Intermediate (2K) (master format), Redcode RAW (source format)
Printed Film Format 35 mm (anamorphic), D-Cinema