Operation Red Sea

Original title: Hong hai xing dong

2018
18
2h 22m

IMDb RATING

6.6/10

8.3K

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Action Drama Thriller War

PLA Navy Marine Corps launch a hostage rescue operation in the fictional Republic of Ihwea and undergo a fierce battle with rebellions and terrorism.PLA Navy Marine Corps launch a hostage rescue operation in the fictional Republic of Ihwea and undergo a fierce battle with rebellions and terrorism.PLA Navy Marine Corps launch a hostage rescue operation in the fictional Republic of Ihwea and undergo a fierce battle with rebellions and terrorism.

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IMDb RATING

6.6/10

8.3K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 36 wins & 41 nominations total

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Yi Zhang

Yang Rui

Johnny Huang

Gu Shun
(as Huang Jingyu)

Hai-Qing

Xia Nan

Jiang Du

Xu Hong

Luxia Jiang

Tong Li

Sanâa Alaoui

Fang Yin

Li Dong

Yutian Wang

Zhang Tiande

Jiahao Guo

Lu Chen
(as Guo Yubin)

Henry Prince Mak

Zhuang Yu
(as Henry Mai)

Noureddine Aberdine

Executionner

Nisrine Adam

Yuna

Khalid Benchagra

Dr. William Parsons

Jacky Cai

Drone pilot
(as Cai Jie)

Abdellatif Chaouqi

John

Shaune Diop

Pirate Leader

Hassan El Ganouni

Sayyid
(as Hassane Guannouni)

Faical Elkihel

Military Captain

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10/10

SPEC OPS THE ACTION MOVIE: "Operation Red Sea"

Who'd have thought that the first live-action SPEC OPS action movie with realistic effects work would be made by China (starring their Navy SPEC OPS "Sea Dragons")? I guess I was wrong to think that without a rating-system, Chinese movies wouldn't dare to show anything -- it turns out that they have no qualms about showing everything (without lingering over it like Hollywood gore porn, of course) if the movie/genre was right...

Featuring 5 main escalating missions/set-pieces -- which are always strongly grounded by detailed sniper tactics and expertly strung together with clear plot-points as well as characterizations -- all the usual Hollywood war/military movie "fat" (such as "character arcs", "grand narratives", "social justice" polemics, etc) has been trimmed off, so that military enthusiasts can simply immerse themselves in the gritty and heart-pounding SPEC OPS action.

Just for its utter lack of pretension (to appear more "balanced", "diverse", profound", etc.) -- 10/10, would BANG again!

Forestaller
Feb 16, 2018
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Trivia
The film was loosely based on the evacuation of the 225 foreign nationals and almost 600 Chinese citizens from Yemen's southern port of Aden during the 2015 Yemeni Civil War in late March.

Goofs
During the fight against the Somali pirates, one of the men on the helicopter has a silencer on his weapon. Given the fact that a helicopter makes far more noise than a silencer, as well as the fact that the man with the rifle is not trying to stay hidden, a silencer would be only a hindrance, since the muzzle velocity of silenced weapons is lesser than that of unsilenced ones.