InSing Review: The Crossing Part 21 min read

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The question you will likely ask yourself after watching this is: Did it require two movies to tell the story about the sinking of the Taiping ship?

John Woo seems to think so.

But even after having a two-hour-long setup in “˜The Crossing Part 1′, he makes us sit through yet another hour to remind us who the characters and main players are before we start on the final cruise of the vessel.

There is a lot of going over the same ground already covered in the first movie, and the attempt to split it into two parts just comes across as an attempt to squeeze more money at the box office.

It might have worked with “˜Red Cliff’, but the first part of “˜The Crossing’ was a disaster at the box office, and this sequel is likely to suffer a similar fate to its predecessor.

In the gist, the stories are as follows: Zekun (Takeishi Kaneshiro) the doctor is still mourning for his lost love, a Japanese woman who left Taiwan; Yun Fen (Song Hye-kyo) is wondering how her husband is faring in the war; and Yizhen (Zhang Ziyi) is a nurse who walks the streets at night in order to earn enough money for a boat ticket to Taiwan in order to find her husband.

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