De Xian Jin Zhi (2025)

Xiao Zhan Was Asked If He Had Advice For The Real Mo DeXian What Would It Be. He Said He Protected..

Xiao Zhan Was Asked In An Interview, Did He Have Any Advice For The Real Mo DeXian, Instead With A Sad Face, Sad Eyes, And Almost Tears In His Eyes Xiao Zhan Said That He Did His Very Best To Protect His Family, And He Kept Them Safe The Best Way He Could. Xiao Zhan Had No Advice For Him, All He Had Was Praising For Mo DeXian In How He Did Such An Amazing, And Great Job, Keeping His Family Safe!!! All Xiao Zhan Would Mention Was How Mo DeXian Did So Well, And Good, And Kept His Family Out Of Harms Way. In Other Words, The Way That Xiao Zhan Is Putting It, Is That This Man Mo DeXian Did Everything, And Anything In His Power To Protect His Family.
In Every Interview With Xiao Zhan Or When Xiao Zhan Is Promote This Movie, You Could See The Sadness In His Face, And Eye's With Almost Tears In His Eyes Everytime For This Movie. Xiao Zhan's Sadness Is Real, It Is Not Fake, And He Is Not Acting. He Is Genuinely Sad For Mo DeXian, And His Family, Because My Xiao Zhan Is Real, And Has A Heart! My Poor Xiao Zhan The Trama, Stress, He Must Have Went Though For This Movie!!! PTSD!!! OMG!!!

I Have To Admit, I Really Didn't Want To See This Movie, Because Of What It's About. I Honestly Have To Say I Didn't Think I Would Like This Movie, Because It Is About War, So I Almost Didn't Even Want To Watch This Movie, But Because I Love, And Adore Xiao Zhan So Very Much, I Had To At Least Watch The Movie Once To Help, And Support Him. (I Was Kind Of Sad Because Usully They Show YiBo's, And Xiao Zhan's Movies At 2 Thearters Out Here, And They Stay Out For About 2 Months, This Came Out Christmas Day Of Last Year, And They Took It Out Of One Thearter Already. I Was Lucky To Find The Showing For Today!!! It Was Very Tricky Find The Showing For Today, But I Found It!!! THANK GOODNESS!!!)

I Finally Saw This Movie GeZhi Town Today...
And Shockingly To My Husband, And To My Suprise We Were Really Shocked, Because We Both Really Ended Up Liking The Movie. Both My Mom, And My Husband Love Xiao Zhan Too... So Naturally I Brought My Mom With Us. My Mom Really Didn't Say If She Liked The Movie Or Not. Which I Understand, Because Unfortunately My Mom Really Did Go Though Or Lived Though WW2. One Story That Stuck In My Mind Was The Air Raid, And How Her Whole Town Would Have To Hide In An Under Ground Cave To Not Be Affected By The Bomb! It Was When The Japanese Took Over Taiwan. She Has Told Me Many Past Memories Of WW2, And None Are Pleasent, So I Really Didn't Ask Her Or Prye Wiether She Like The Movie Or Not.
She Did Comment On How The Little Boy Is Bad, And I Said Yes He Is, He Doesn't Listen. This Little Boy, All He Kept Doing Was Running Around, And Totally Misbehaving, And Hiding. His Mom, And Dad Had To Go Into Danger Looking For Him Once Or Twice While The Japanese Were There. I Just Wanted To Wring This Kid By The Neck!!! My Mom Said He Does Know Anything About Living Or Dying. Which Means He's Never Seen Death, So He Is Not Scared Of Death, Which Is So True!!! Funny Part Though He Kept Asking His Great Grand Pa How Come He Doesn't Die. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Anyways In All Seriousness, And In All Honesty Though, My Mom Knows How Much I Love And Adore Wang YiBo, And Xiao Zhan, So She Would Never Say Anything Bad About Them, Or Speak Ill Of Them, Because She Knows They Are My 2 Most Favorite People In The World. (Amongst Other Actors) Plus She Is Always Telling How Xiao Zhan Is So Cute. 🥰 So Even If She Didn't Like The Movie, She Would Never Tell Me. (She Has Seen No Name/ Hidden Blade, The Legend Of Condor Heros: The Gallants, And This Movie, She Has Never Said Anything About Any.)

The Music Was Very Strange, Sounded Like From The Olden Times, Like Old Antcient Chinese Music, And A Lady Kept Singing It, I Didn't Really Care For It Or Liked That Music At All. There Was Even A Song At The End That Kept Repeating The Words Congadtutaltion To You, I Guess Because They All Servived, But It Was Like The Most Inappropriate Time To Play That Song.
The Only Reason Why I Gave The Music A 9.0 Score Is Only For ONE Reason, And That Is Because The Ending Credits Song That Xiao Zhan Sings. THE 9.0 IS FOR, AND ONLY THE ENDING CREDIT SONG THAT XIAO ZHAN SINGS!!! I Am Guessing It Was Especially Made For This Movie! Xiao Zhan And His Bad @ss New Song. I Love His Voice, Talking, Or Singing, I Love His Voice Both Ways. He Has Such A Beautiful, And Angelic Voice!!! At Least That Is What My Husband, And I Think...

The Movie Started Out Strange In Black, And White, Then Switchs To Color, And Switches Off Back, And Forth Though Out The Movie, And Vice Versa. I Will Say This, One Thing I Didn't Like Was It Was In A Different Chinese Dialect. It Wasn't Even Cantonese, I Don't Think. It Was Spoken In Mandarin Chinese Rarely, Which Made It Hard To Understand The Movie, And It Wasn't Very Enjoyable. The English Translation Is Always 99.9% Wrong, So I Never Read It. It Had 3 Diffrent Languages, Very Little Mandarin Chinese, A Strange Dialect, And Japanese... So Expect To Hear 3 Diffrent Languages. I Think The Unique Dialect Is From Where Xiao Zhan Comes From Chong Qing, Because Both Characters Him, And His Wife Were From There In The Movie (It's So Strange, Because Xiao Zhan's Other Movie Legend Of Condor Heros: The Gallants Was Spoken In Mandarin, Mongolian, And I Believe Cantonese. What's Up With The Different Languages??? Even YiBo Too... His No Name/ Hidden Blade Had Mandarin, Cantonese, And Japanese! Informed Police Unit Had Mandarin, Cantonese, And French! WTF??? Intresting, But Kind Of Bazzar At The Same Time!!!)

The Movie It's Self Is Very Stressful, And Very Tramatizing At Least To Me It Was, Because Thoughout The Movie I Thought To Myself Xiao Zhan Would Get Hurt In Real Life So Many Times Screaming, Yelling, And Cringing, Because Of All The Things Going On In The Movie Even Though It Was Filmed Some Time Ago. I Always Get Scared, And Worry With Crazy Stunts Like In This Movie, Because It's Scary. I Know Xiao Zhan Did Get Hurt On His Check One Time, But Thank Goodness It Didn't Leave His Pretty Face With A Scar. Owwww, I Was So Mad When I Heard About Him Getting Hurt In The Face, Because The Movie Or Drama Production Team Are So Careless.

Let's Just Say In The Movie Mo DeXian Is Very Lucky, Because He Could Have Died 20 Times Or More, And Over Again. Be Shot At Repeatedly, By Mustkets, And A Tanker, Or Bombed At. Actually I Don't Know If He Is Lucky Or Not, But I Think Great Grand Pa's Praying To There Ancestors Worked, Because Even Great Grand Pa Got Away Unskaved. Fighting With The Japanese With Just An Axe, Or Cleaver, And Being Shot At, He Never Once Got Hurt. Actually I Think That Big Black Pig Is A Luckiest Of Charms, Because If It Weren't For The Pig, Great Grand Pa, Would Have Never Left The Rock On The Tanker, And It Would Have Never Gotten Stuck Or Wedged Between The Tanker Gun, And Tanker. Great Grand Pa Trying To Corral The Pig Back To His House Was Like A God Sent.

As For The Movie, And The Most Part, This Movie Itself It Is Really Gorey, Graphic, And Very Tramatizing, I Can't Believe How Disgusting, And Brutal The Japanese Were. 3 Japanese Men With No Care In The World, But With One Mission To Kill Every Chinese In Sight. They Stabbing The Chinese With A Knief Attached To A Musket Once, Twice, Or Over, And Over Again, And Again With No Care In The World That They Just Murdered And Or Just Killed Another Human Being, AND OR JUST SHOOTING THE CHINESE AND LEFT DEAD. (When My Mom Talked About WW2, I Believed Her, She's Told Me A Memorie She Had, And It Was That She Saw A Japanese Soldier Tie Up A Dog To A Pole, And Just Start Slashing The Dog Into Pieces With A Katana Sword, I Was Always Like Why, She Said Just Because He Didn't Like The Dog. Anyways After Watching This Movie I Believe Her More Then Ever Now, Because That One Japanese Shot The Dog That Was Running Away, For No Reason. 😡)

I KNOW YOUR THINK HOW COULD MY HUSBAND, AND I HAVE REALLY LIKED THIS MOVIE, Well... For One Of Our Most Favorite Actors Whom We Love, And Adore So Very Much Was In It! TWO, As True To What Xiao Zhan Said About Mo DeXain, And Him Keeping His Family Safe, He Did, And He Did His Very Damndest Too... Even If It Meant Risking His Own Life, And Dying, He Didn't Care, The Most Important Thing To Him Was His Family, And Keeping His Family Safe, And Out Of Harms Way.
I Will Only Reviel This One Spoiler At The Very End Of The Movie Mo DeXian, And His Family Were The Only Ones That Servived The Whole Ordeal, Everyone Else Had Died, All The Chinese Soldiers, And All The Japanese Soldiers All Died, Maybe One Or 2 Lived, But Other Then That Mo DeXian, His Wife, Great Grand Pa, And There Son All Servived.
I'M NOT GOING TO LIE, I THOUGHT MO DEXIAN WOULD DIE, AND I WAS GOING TO BE PISSED AS HELL, BUT HE LIVED, AND LET ME TELL YOU THE ENDING WAS TERIFFING, BECAUSE... I Already Revieled The Spoiler, So Your Just Going To Have To Watch What Happened.

Started Writing This On January 4th, 2026 From 8:38 P.M. To January 5th, 2026 10:38 A.M. From Writing One Review To Falling Asleep, And Deleting It, To Writing Another One, And Deleting Half Of It, (THANK GOODNESS FOR COPY, AND PASTE), To Now This Review... Added A Lot More Stuff... Like About My Mom, And WW2!!!
AND YES MY MOM REALLY WAS IN WW2, AND SERVIVED IT!!!

Posted At 11:12 A.M.

Lire davantage

Gallows humour gives this some shine

Honestly, Gezhi Town is pretty stock-standard fare when it comes to Chinese war films. Or perhaps it's harder to stand out at the moment, given the impressive number of Chinese-produced WWII blockbusters to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan's defeat.

Obviously, from a commercial perspective, the creators have played their cards well by casting Xiao Zhan as our long-suffering protagonist, Mo Dexian. He delivers a solid performance, though nothing overly remarkable. The same can be said for the rest of the cast.

For me, the highlight of Gezhi Town is the use of gallows humour. There's a little sprinkled at the beginning, but it doesn't really come into play until halfway through when the action is at full swing. This is what gives the film a bit of sparkle. Otherwise, it's the usual fight-against-the-odds playbook – which is all well and good – just nothing particularly special.

This film also gets some brownie points for having very believable characters. It's easy for war films to reduce people to cardboard cutouts, but Gezhi Town employs humour to show the clumsy human-ness of goodies and baddies alike.

Lire davantage