a5c7b9f00b A railroad worker in China in 1941 leads a team of freedom fighters against the Japanese in order to get food for the poor. In December 1941, The railway from Tianjin to Nanjing in East China became a key military transportation route, heavily guarded by Japanese soldiers. Ma Yuan, a railroad worker and his group of freedom fighters find themselves on the wrong side of the tracks when they decide to ambush a heavily armed military train filled with desperately needed provisions. Unarmed and outnumbered, they must rely on their wits to battle an entire army. I won&#39;t pretend to have seen every Jackie Chan movie out there, but I&#39;ve seen all the ones he made at his peak in the 1980s and 1990s. I think that if this particular one had been made during that period, it would have turned out a lot better. For one thing, Chan only gets into ONE fight sequence in this film, and it&#39;s far from being exciting. (Though maybe this was inevitable, given Chan&#39;s now advancing age.) <br/><br/>As it turns out, very little of the other action in the movie, from shoot-outs to fisticuffs, manages to be all that interesting. There is no breakneck pacing, no feeling of great tension or struggle that was found in Chan&#39;s earlier movies. Instead, all the action comes acrosslabored and sluggish. In fact, there are some lengthy sections of this overlong (over two hours in length) movie that are kind of boring.<br/><br/>Other complaints I had about the movie range from there being too many characters to unfunny bouts of slapstick comedy. Everything added together makes for one big disappointing movie. Stick with Chan&#39;s older movies instead. First of all, this is just a china propaganda movie. They want to &quot;educate&quot; viewers some battle fought by the communist Eighth Route Army （八路军） on a fictional bridge. The plot is rather empty and no reason was given why that bridge has to be destroyed… (maybe i missed it in the dialog but it should be trivial for the war).<br/><br/>Next is how they portray the Japanese soldiers. All of them act without much intellect, and this make the movie one-sided and extremely boring for a action movie.<br/><br/>Not much for comedy part, maybe the cowardice of the Japaneses might capture a few laugh…. With heart, humor and some breathtaking special effects, Ding Sheng’s Railroad Tigers charms and thrills.
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