One word, Wow. Red Cliff is a movie that 10 years from now i'll still enjoy, if only for its atmosphere and perfomances. 30 minutes into the movie a heavy fog has covered the land and in a ploy to get more arrows Zhu Ge (Takeshi Kaneshiro) uses this fog in a brilliant move to get arrows. The scene is one of the many reasons I love these movies. Watching the arrows move through the fog and watching the arrow filled boats move through the water was an amazing thing to watch.

As for the performances, still on par with the first movie, which is to say, everyone brought their A++ game. The surroundings in this movie is worth the price of admission, and althought the movie takes place primarily on water, it is still a thing of beauty nonetheless. The movie is light on action, but so was the first, and that won't stop your enjoyment of this masterpiece.

It is hard speak of this movie without giving it away, so I won't. I'll just say that if you haven't watched these movies, pick up the first and purchase the sequel when it becomes available. It doesn't disappoint. If you've read my review for the first movie, I held back scoring until I could watch this and I will change my 8 out of 10 on the first to a 9. These movies are near flawless, my only gripe with the sequel is that for a movie that should be heavy on strategy it wasn't. But as i've said this movie is a classic in the making.

CLASSIC in the making, trust me.