Lu Chuan uses a rather unique approach for his narrative, combining elements of documentary , road movie, and western

| Jan 19, 2020

An ode to the great sacrifices that often accompany the will to do the right thing.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 5, 2007

Moby Dick with a progressive spin.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 13, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2006

One of those films that opens eyes to distant lands and problems and yet carries a sense of drama and a humane moral tone that conveys an appeal that's simultaneously exotic and universal.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 28, 2006

The film's most memorable visual spectacle, of a man getting sucked into a pool of quicksand, is also the most resonant. Man may think he rules over nature, but it can take him back at any moment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 6, 2006

Mixes environmental awareness and spiritual mindfulness with its chase scenes through grand scenery.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 3, 2006

A fascinating oddity, marked by amazing locales and a narrative that continually subverts your expectations...the effect is hypnotic.

| Original Score: B | May 31, 2006

Breathtakingly beautiful, breathtakingly brutal and simply breathtaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 26, 2006

Duobuji shows he has a strong, charismatic presence in his role as the patrol leader, Ritai.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2006

Mountain Patrol, peppered with shocking revelations of just how suddenly and brutally death can come calling, has the look and feel of a documentary.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 26, 2006

A strange and sometimes compelling film that absolutely transports you to a remote corner of the world but doesn't quite do enough to make you feel steady on your feet once you get there.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 19, 2006

Much of the time, the movie plays like a catalog of challenges sprawled over terrain so forbidding that you can't watch it without feeling a steep measure of awe.

Full Review | Original Score: B | May 19, 2006

It's an absurdist, quixotic and sloooow journey that leads our heroes to the banal face of evil.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2006

Instead of a laudable ecological crusade, the film feels more like a futile Captain Ahab obsession, with patrol leader Ri Tai (Duobujie) vainly chasing a poaching kingpin through the harsh, windy wilderness.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 12, 2006

| Original Score: B | May 6, 2006

A quiet little gem of a film that stuns with spectacular beauty, shocks with awful savagery and leaves you pondering the relationship of man and nature.

| May 6, 2006

Spectacularly-photographed, deeply moving tale.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 6, 2006

| Original Score: A- | May 6, 2006