THIS MOVIE WAS INCREDIBLE!!!!

Rating: Null/10 (29 January 2004)

This is one of the best movies I've ever seen. John Lone and Joan Chen are fantastic, and Bernardo Bertolucci deserved Best Director.
#THESE ARE SOME POTENTIAL SPOILERS# This film has two distinctions: it won every award at the Oscars; nine nominations, nine wins!
Second: It has the distinction of being one of Peter O'Toole's finest roles. I haven't seen "Lawrence of Arabia," so I'm not saying "The Last Emperor" is his greatest, but it's one of his greatest.
Okay, that second one sounds lame, but give me a chance.
This is a fine film. I love Oscar-worthy films, and this one deserved Best Picture 1987. Bertolucci does a fine job with this film, which is a cinematic masterpiece.
(Some of you may find it ironic that I like this film and not Lord of the Rings. That's okay, we all like different movies.)
SPOILERS ARE IN THIS NEXT SECTION! BEWARE! DON'T READ FORWARD IF YOU DON'T WANT TO SEE ANYMORE!!!!
The acting is fabulous. Joan Lone is Emperor Henry Pu Yi, who goes to the throne at age three. The empress or queen declares him China's "emperor of 10,000 years" and sends him to the Forbidden City. He is not allowed to leave, but he seriously wants to. Reginald "R.J." Johnston (Peter O'Toole) becomes Pu Yi's tutor and buys him a bike. Pu Yi uses this opportunity to leave the city, but returns to find him a wife. In a classic scene, he is covered in lipstick with kisses from his bride-to-be. They marry and eventually leave the Forbidden City. Pu Yi decides to mingle with the locals, and conducts business with Hirohito and the Japanese in Manchuria, which is occupied by the Japanese troops and is called Manchukuo by them. Pu Yi gets incarcerated by the Japanese for the majority of the Second World War and more years afterwards. In flashback moments, his wife leaves him and wastes away and dies. After several more years, around 1956, Pu Yi is released into the streets of Beijing as Mao Xedong and the Communist powers overthrow the country. Pu Yi is a failing gardener who watches in horror as Xedong imprisons many of his cellmates from the prison. He returns to the Forbidden City one last time, where he spots a young boy. Pu Yi had a cricket as a child, and after many years, it has survived. He gives it to the little boy, then rests in his old bed. Slowly he takes his last breath and dies. Right at the end, a tour guide is explaining the life of Pu Yi.
MORE SPOILERS (Sorry, all of you.) This was the first PG-13 movie to win Best Picture (please correct me if I'm wrong!)
So this would be an excellent movie to watch. 5/5 stars, 10/10 stars.

"Throughout history there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a while, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think about it. Always."- Mahatma Gandhi