Excellent War Movie From The East, Bale is Outstanding As Always

Rating: 8/10 (9 September 2014)

The film is based on a novella by Geling Yan, "13 Flowers of Nanjing", inspired by the diary of Minnie Vautrin.
The story is set in Nanking, China, during the 1937 Rape of Nanking in the Second Sino-Japanese War. A group of escapees, finding sanctuary in a church compound, try to survive the plight and persecution brought on by the violent invasion of the city.
I really liked and I did not even seen many from the east, the story is very good, a realistic scenario of war and survival that teleports us into the middle of it, the plot improves the level as time progresses the first hour is the best part of the movie it had a predictable ending, that's right but it doesn't ruin the movie either, despite being a film about something as atrocious as this the 140 min of running time didn't fell that long and never lost interest, Bale also helped a lot with his performance showing why he is the big Hollywood star that he is.
The cinematography is quite good, so are the visual effects, the huge budget also helped($90,000,000). My vote is 8.
Title (Portugal) - "As Flores da Guerra" ("The Flowers of War")