The Children of Huang Shi

A nice moive that, for once, didn't reference Christianity as to saving "them". They didn't play up stupid love subplots or anything like that.... Full review

Beautiful scenery. Historical details we all need to know. A bit long, but needs to be in order to tell the story. Recommend it. Not for children.... Full review

Who was George Hogg, really? Do an Internet search and you'll see that his name is variously interpreted as a "footballer," a midshipman on the Titantic, and various unknowns in genealogy charts. But Nie Quangpei, a Chinese orphan whose life Hogg... Full review

I was very confused as to what season it was in this movie. The viewer saw CG sunflowers and tomatoes growing in one frame, then the actors' breath during a frigid time (apparently), then back to the tomatoes and sunflowers, then... Full review

Swooning at the majestic landscapes may have been enough but the story is gripping and overshadows Lee's "Lust, Caution" contextualizing China during WWII better. To single out one actor would be unfair because the entire cast is superb, including the children.... Full review

Swooning at the majestic landscapes may have been enough but the story is gripping and overshadows Lee's "Lust, Caution" contextualizing China during WWII better. To single out one actor would be unfair because the entire cast is superb, including the children.... Full review

Powerful story; Glorious Visuals; Amazing scenery and totally and I mean totally engrossing story. You will love it and you'll never look at another Chinese person or child in the same way again.... Full review

Powerful story; Glorious Visuals; Amazing scenery and totally and I mean totally engrossing story. You will love it and you'll never look at another Chinese person or child in the same way again.... Full review

It's so refreshing to be able to take my older sons to a movie about "something" ... Ya know - so often, I walk out of a theatre like, "what the hell did I just spend money on?? This "Children..Huang Shi"... Full review

The story is compelling based on a real life case, showing the horor of war. The japanese were sickingly brutal and the kids were so cute. However, I feel the movie was a little flat considering all the good stars in... Full review

Much better performances come from Chow Yun Fat as resistance leader Chen, and the luminous Michelle Yeoh as a merchant's widow who helps supply Hogg's children with seed to grow crops. The core event of the story is also well depicted: Oxford-educated Hogg became headmaster of a school for displaced boys and, when the Japanese army advanced, led them on an epic mountain trek of more than 700 miles to a safe location near the borders of Tibet and Mongolia in 1945. ... Full Review

It's about here that the story takes a sharp turn from a somewhat exciting war drama about a neophyte in over his head to a cross between Au Revoir les Enfants and The King and I . A decadent, exotic city, the brink of war, the sweep of history, a gang of scruffy urchins, the lips and eyes of Jonathan Rhys Meyers - these are the main ingredients in Roger Spottiswoode 's The Children of Huang Shi , a small-scale, would-be epic about an inexperienced British journalist whose accidental arrival in Japanese-oc ... Full Review

And yet the story of "The Children of Huang Shi" is so moving, the children of the film are so natural, the work of Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat and Michelle Yeoh ("Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") as a merchant and supplier of opium to those who need it, is so magnetic, that the film survives its miscasting of the lead. ... Full Review

However, the facts protect the story from criticism of it being another film that celebrates a white hero saving members of a non-white culture. The main kids are terrific, and the cinematography by Zhao Xiaoding is stirring without being distracting. ... Full Review

Despite occasional tense moments, the story travels just about the route one would expect, including planting a vegetable garden to feed the boys. More interesting is Michelle Yeoh's Mrs. Wang, a sort of "dragon lady" merchant who befriends Hogg, keeps him supplied with provisions and seeds and even her secret stash of medicines and morphine. ... Full Review

Rated R.Based on actual events and set in China during the brutal Japanese occupation of the 1930s and '40s, this film stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers as British journalist George Hogg. ... Full Article

By TOM LONG THE DETROIT NEWS Published: Sunday, July 6, 2008 at 4:30 a.m. Stiff, bland and at times unintentionally laughable, "The Children of Huang Shi" is a perfect example of what happens when badly cast actors meet a spiritless ... Full Article

(A) Veterans sometimes say combat survivors give off a glow that protects them like an invisible shield.Jonathan Rhys Meyers radiates that glow until the final reel of The Children of Huang Shi , a terrific, fact-inspired moral adventure. ... Full Article

George Hogg was an Oxford-educated photojournalist who documented the Japanese invasion of China in the late 1930s. In a northern province, he ran a school for war-orphaned boys. ... Full Article

I can just hear the pitch to the producer: Its Schindlers List meets The Sound of Music . And, more or less, thats exactly how Spottiswoodes The Children of Huang Shi plays out, only without nearly the entertainment value of ... Full Article

Saved from certain execution by Chen (Chow Yun-Fat), a West Point-educated Chinese soldier with Communist sympathies, he's taken to an isolated orphanage filled with lost boys on the verge of going "Lord of the Flies" -- ostensibly to recover from... ... Full Article