Film Review: ‘the Crossing Ii’

Maggie Lee, Variety
Sat, 08/01/2015 - 1:49am

Like passengers who overpaid for tickets to escape war-ravaged Shanghai on the Taiwan-bound liner Taiping in 1949, only to end up on a sinking ship, audiences get a pretty lousy deal with John Woo’s “The Crossing II,” an inert follow-up that doesn’t deliver enough visual or emotional payoff in its overdue yet short-lived shipwreck climax.

Topics: shanghai taiwan-bound taiping john woo s the crossing ii

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