清末鸦片战争前夕，春暖国力羸弱，春暖鸦片肆虐，民不聊生。民团教头黄飞鸿被秘密组织火莲教暗算，生死未卜，禁烟行动也因此受阻。苏灿临危受命，与江湖丐帮女子明心联手继续彻查火莲教销售鸦片的证据；同时深入虎穴，全力营救黄飞鸿。火莲教将鸦片比作仙草，用奇门异术蛊惑民心。期间，操纵傀儡药人的绝偃道长、神秘阴毒的邪皇，亦敌亦友的火莲教女杀手明灵陆续登场，邪皇设局陷害苏灿将其抄家贬为乞丐，桀骜不驯的苏灿跌入谷底，生不如死。在心仪苏灿的明心帮助下，丐帮长老将禁地绝学传与苏灿。重新振作的苏灿联合禁烟大臣李大人，与火莲教展开终极决战，热血男儿苏乞儿由此踏上了一条救国之路……
回复 : 根据余华同名小说改编。富少福贵（葛优）嗜赌成性，妻子家珍（巩俐）屡劝无果后带着女儿凤霞离开了他，当夜，福贵输光所有家产气死父亲，被迫靠变卖母亲首饰租间破屋过活。一年后，家珍手拉凤霞怀抱刚出世的儿子有庆回到家中，福贵痛改前非，开始靠演皮影戏过起安份守己的日子。但好景不常，内战时期，福贵被国民党抓去当劳工，一番辗转终回到家乡与一家人团圆后，凤霞因病变成哑巴，而在后来的大跃进运动和文化大革命中，他虽获某些小福，逆境却也一直与他如影相随。
回复 :约翰．保曼在三十年前已拍出具现代感觉的动作片，堪称时代先躯。六十年代动作巨星李．马文饰演一名黑道悍将，他被不忠的妻子和她的歹徒男友合谋枪杀，但大难不死，两年后出狱，倾全力向陷害他的人报仇。全片节奏虽不象九十年代动作片那么紧凑有力，但镜头绝不拖泥带水，某些片段还拍出真正的暴力感觉。美国西岸的景色，包括著名的阿卡翠监狱，都增加了本片在视觉上的吸引力。安吉．迪金森和卡罗尔．奥康纳等演员亦表现不错。
回复 :The subtitle of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s first feature, from 1965, “Only Violence Helps Where Violence Reigns,” suggests the fierce political program evoked by their rigorous aesthetic. The pretext of the film, set in Cologne, is Heinrich Böll’s novel “Billiards at Half Past Nine,” which they strip down to a handful of stark events and film with a confrontational angularity akin to Bartók’s music that adorns the soundtrack. The subtlest of cues accompany the story’s complex flashbacks. The middle-aged Robert Fähmel tells a young hotel bellhop of persecutions under the Third Reich; his elderly father, Heinrich, an architect famed for a local abbey, recalls the militarism of the First World War, when his wife, Johanna, incurred trouble for insulting the Kaiser. A third-generation Fähmel is considering architecture, just as the exiled brother of Robert’s late wife, returns, only to be met by their former torturer, now a West German official taking part in a celebratory parade of war veterans. Straub and Huillet make the layers of history live in the present tense, which they judge severely. The tamped-down acting and the spare, tense visual rhetoric suggest a state of moral crisis as well as the response—as much in style as in substance—that it demands.
