Cloudy mountain is a 2021 natural disaster flick that was directed by Li Jun and stared Zhu Yi Long, Huang Zhi Zhong, with Chen Shu. The film was a hit in China since many films such as this are. The film poster looks better than the actually movie.....
A father and son try to save lives as a railway directly above a fault crack causes natural disasters.
Cloudy Mountain is long winded for no reason. This movie would have done well to have just been as simple as possible. Instead, we get a lot of character building scene on top of try hard disaster scenes. I'm a viewer that has a lot of patience but when the atmosphere of a film causes me to look away at my phone in the first couple of scenes then we have a problem. You won't care much for the characters because they are just as generic as the editing and special effects. I saw promise in this film but so much was trying to be done in accomplishment of being a solid film that the true essence of just a plain old terror flick was missed completely. Even the overall reason for why this was happening felt unbelievable to me. You know those cheaply made Chinese dramas that use bad fade out edits? Cloudy Mountain was almost that, only with a slightly bigger production value. A Cloudy Mountain drama could actually work if we leave out most of the pitfalls the movie made and that tired connection the film tried to make to history. Does every Chinese film have to have a historical reference to be deemed appropriate?
The cast wasn't bad. The film crashing and burning wasn't their fault. Cloudy Mountain was already "cloudy" when the cast got there because it was a dumpster fire when the script was created. I thought the relationship between father and sun was fine. It's emotional context was well portrayed which made the ending powerful... until we got to the history lesson at the end of the film.
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I won't be watching this film again. I'll probably forget all about Cloudy Mountain in a week or two. You probably should too or don't.....
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