The Last Emperor (1987)

So much average

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Its ok good acting but 9 oscars? Not that good. But sure go watch it if you like movies based on real life events

Film Review: "The Last Emperor" (1987)An historic figure run by tradition, loved by the sex-reluctant woman of a perfect-gene, pushed out of his own country by Japanese occupying China in World-War-II, the title-given "Last Emperor" of China, portrayed by 34-year-old John Lone within the majority of fulminate directed indepentely-produced world cinema motion picture by Bernardo Bertulucci, at age 46, when actress Joan Chen steals the initial story-arc of a human character presenting never-seen-before decay in flawless skinnish appearance into oblivion of drug abuse due to loose strings of a former all-too fading lover as character of Wan Jung in shots of never-too-forget narcissus-eating proportions, when the witnessing audience must endure a 150-plus-Minute picture to come full circle in awe-struck heart-break.Cleaning sweep of nine-Academy-Award-nominations , without any Award-nominated performances happen, to legendary nine-Academy-Award-wins at the Oscars at its 60th edition, presented on April 11th 1988 in Los Angeles, this exceptional motion picture of a particular human condition from putting a human being to power by birth-right and nevertheless due to the inevitable circle of life, the biopic main character of Pu Yi, living on this "Earth" from 1906-1967, here portrayed in life-determing proportions by actor John Lone, who only once again had been able to charge for the big screens of Hollywood in undermined graphic novel all-too-shy PG-13 adaptation of "The Shadow" starring Alec Baldmin directed Russell Mulcahy, when "The Last Emperor" lives from director Bernardo Bertulucci's impeccable precisely-dedicated admirable beat work especially with his main cast to win throughout in award-season 1987/1988 thanks to inferior marketing international endeavors by producer Jeremy Thomas, known for make London-inhabitants-dreaming hard-boiled-crime-drama happen, the cinematic gem-to-discover "The Hit" (1984) starring John Hurt directed by Stephen Frears. "The Last Emperor" shines with real-happening Beijing, China locations and color-timing ultimate cinematography by genius-lighting-cameraman Vittorio Storaro hands-over 35mm film footage to editor Gabrielle Cristiani and mingling with score artist Ryûichi Sakamoto to come out as balanced as possible in a near-perfect biopic-picture of world cinema.Copyright 2018 Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC

I don't know one who finished the job quietly and this Chinese one got the luck to not be killed at least! The movie doesn't make him an amazing person but his fate to live locked and as a puppet is rather sad: it's true that the production is really sumptuous all the more than it's the real locations. The pace is rather fluid and clear so you keep interested in the events: It helps too that we can recognize a lot of faces (O'Toole, the two Gremlins, Twin Peaks, Palanquin) and this kind of huge historical production was always useful to better understand the world we live in! In all cases, it's much better than the awful biopic we got today!

This film tells the life of the last Chinese emperor, Pu Yi. Crowned as a baby, he lived a life of limitless luxury but was eventually expelled from his throne by the revolution of 1911. Imprisoned in his palace like a bird in a golden cage, he saw the decay of his country and the dramatic changes of Republican China from the inside of the Forbidden City. Expelled by the Communists years later, he spent a good part of his life trying to regain his throne, and the rest of it imprisoned in Chinese reeducation camps that transformed him into an ordinary man. There is undoubtedly a poetic beauty in the transformation of the main character, and the film can make us feel the changes in his personality, as well as the changes of his former empire. The film suggests several things about him and the imperial family that I do not know if they are truth, like the apparent lesbianism of one of the emperor's wives and their use of drugs. Bernardo Bertolucci is a director that I normally do not appreciate, but I recognize in this film many qualities. The actors did a very regular and interesting performance. John Lone was perfect in the role of the emperor, but even brighter was Peter O'Toole, in a role that, otherwise, with another actor, could be overly subdued. The film's set-ups are glamorous and go a long way toward creating a Hollywood-era epic movie feel. Nevertheless, the comparison of this film as "Seven Years in Tibet", by context, time and closeness, is more pertinent than with any other film.