Shanghai Red (Chinese: 红美丽) is a 2006 Chinese-American thriller-drama film directed by Oscar L. Costo, starring Vivian Wu and Richard Burgi.

Shanghai Red
Directed byOscar L. Costo
Written byOscar L. Costo
Produced byOscar L. Costo
Vivian Wu
Starring
CinematographyAdam Kane
Edited byJosh Muscatine
Music byRandy Miller
Production
companies
Shanghai Film Group
MARdeORO Films
Distributed byIndican Pictures
Release dates
  • 27 August 2006 (2006-08-27) (Montreal World Film Festival)
  • 29 April 2007 (2007-04-29) (China)
Running time
118 minutes
CountriesUnited States
China
LanguagesEnglish
Mandarin

Cast

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Release

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The film premiered at the Montreal World Film Festival on 27 August 2006.[1]

Reception

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Ronnie Scheib of Variety praised the performances of Wu and Sun, and wrote that the film "provides its own correctives, taking unexpected detours at all the plot’s weakest, most predictable moments, and thereby defusing action-movie cliches."[1]

Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Costo "effectively tells the film’s carefully unfolding story in flashbacks", while Kane's "rich" cinematographer "vividly captures a mostly sleek and seductive Shanghai".[2]

Maggie Lee of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that "any attempt at psychological penetration is distracted by all the action, suspense, romance and Shanghai city tours that fill up the film’s running time."[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Scheib, Ronnie (30 August 2006). "Shanghai Red". Variety. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  2. ^ Goldstein, Gary (4 May 2012). "Movie review: Not all is as it seems in 'Shanghai Red'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
  3. ^ Lee, Maggie (10 July 2007). "Shanghai Red". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 28 December 2022.
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