The Last Emperor3 And A Half Out Of 5The Last Emperor is a character driven biography about the Last Emperor of China and his journey on adapting and facing the evolving reality. The passion and enthusiasm towards the project is clearly visible which also pays off as the craft touches the audience within first few minutes which clearly shows how explicitly and beautifully the project is created. It is rich on technical aspects like background score, production design, cinematography, costume design, sound department, art design and editing. The writing is strong and creates the anticipated among the viewers and sets the energy of the cinema with a perfect amount of tense and glorious as it can aspire to be. The screenplay by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci is elaborated and not over-stretched which is essential for the writers to be aware of, which helps them filter out dull inessential sequences easily. Bernardo Bertolucci; the director, has done a tremendous work on executing the script and not lose the grip on any frame of it, which seems possible considering the runtime of the feature. Each and every actor linked to the feature has given its all in, since being aware of the opportunity and it is communicated swiftly with the audience. The Last Emperor is a brief and rigid reign whose journey is depicted with all passion; all love; all heart.

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

There's no denying the fact that the movie has it's adherents, and with nine Academy Award wins to back it up, it deserves it's place among cinema's finest films. However for this viewer, I wasn't inspired by a sense of grandeur or awe in the life of Pu Yi, the titled Last Emperor of the Ching Dynasty. A person of importance by birth perhaps, but someone who ultimately observes history pass him by, preferring to watch things happen instead of making things happen. The picture is a study of a man attempting to reconcile personal responsibility with a political legacy, but the ramifications of Pu Yi's (John Lone) life didn't resonate with this viewer. The most artistic elements in the movie for me include the production design by Ferdinando Scafiotti and Vittorio Storaro's cinematography, capturing the harsh beauty and elegance of Peking's fabled Forbidden City. As other reviewers have noted, the movie's near three hour run time also plays on one's attention span, and I'm generally fairly patient by nature. However without any significant high points in the story, the impact of the movie had more of a documentary feel than what I would have hoped for.

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