Title: Some good moments but mediocre on the whole
Product review: This is almost a good movie. It has a statement to make(China's prisons are not the best place to be afterall) , a decent plot and an Oscar-worthing perfomance from Bai Ling as Richard Gere's chinese laywer.The problems begin with Gere's colourless acting and the directors obsession to make him stand out.It's silly to watch him use his right to defend himself in the chinese court.How can you believe that a common business man would have the guts and the brains to do that ? Then it's the producers fear not to let the chinese actors speak their mothertongue for more than five minutes.They somehow seem to be scared that if they do so , the audiences will be bored and leave the cinemas before the halfway mark."I'm gonna tell you this in english in order not to humiliate you" says Ling's character, to a chinese officer in some justice building full of files . Ok but...why?
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