Empire of the Sun

Pros: The story, the cinematography, Christian Bale, the film editing, the direction.
Cons: None.

In his most under appreciated gem, Empire of the Sun, based off the semi-autobiographical novel by J.G. Ballard, is filled with the fingerprints of the then boy wonder, Steven Spielberg. Empire of the Sun will eventually launch Spielberg’s ...

Pros: Brilliant movie!
Cons: None!

Released in 1988, Empire of the Sun is a brilliant epic movie set during the second world war. Directed by Steven Spielberg, the movie introduced a very young Christian Bale to the silver screen, who we all know by now has gone on to become a household ...

Pros: Incredible, breathtaking. My favorite movie of all time.
Cons: Will have slow parts at time, but they aren't that bad.

I've loved this movie for years. I watch it about once ever few months and i never get tired of it. It has one of my favorite actors, john malcovich. The plot is incredible. Younf boy gets seperated from parents furing war and he struggles not only...

Pros: Christian Bale's Acting, Music, Cinematography
Cons: Lack of Plot

Steven Spielberg's best film, Empire of the Sun, is a masterful movie. The cinematography and attention to details in each scene is a joy to watch. The film doesn't settle for casual ways to portray an event, but through a young boy's eyes we see them....

Pros: It made me cry because it is so beautiful!
Cons: The beginning gets a bit boring

Empire of the Sun is a brilliant film! i loved it and it was the first film ever to make me cry (Titanic didnt even make me cry). It is about a boy called James (Jim) Graham and he lives in Shang Hai during the 2nd world war. It starts off when Jamie is...

Pros: Everything
Cons: slow beginning

I just watched this movie again for the 12th time. I have been spellbound by this movie each and every time I have seen it. I am amazed at the superb acting of the movie's young star Christian Bale and am baffled that he was not honored for his fine...

Pros: It's Spielberg's best kept secret
Cons: It IS a war picture so if you don't want to here about WW2 again, skip it

I saw this film when I was rather young. The first time around I didn't understand everything in it, but it still caught my attention. It made me curious about World War II and was one of the films that got me interested in seeing GOOD films.
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Pros: the best movie ever
Cons: loooooooong

i first saw this movie in my 10th grade english class. i have seen it, probably ten times since then. I am not going to give away the plot of this movie because a lot of other reviews already have. i just want to talk about what i liked about what i got...

Pros: Spielberg sheds pure light onto the Japanese role in China during WWII...
Cons: Why don't they make them like this anymore...

Steven Spielberg, the greatest living director of our time, has attempted to take on the most formidable projects in cinema history throughout his career and, by and large, has succeeded. Only Oliver Stone has enjoyed a comparable track record,...

Pros: all
Cons: none

This movie appealed to me becuase it is set in history, but when i got round to watching it, i was caught in it, and i could not turn it off, it moved me sooo much, that i can watch it all day and not get bored, it grabs your heart and scences, it is...

Pros: Keeps you interested at all time
Cons: Not on DVD yet

Now Im a guy who like Animal House, Slapshot, Caddy Shack, but I have to say that Empire of the Sun is one of my all time favorite movies. I originally saw this movie while I was in the hospital with a broken leg and saw it on cable. I thought it was an...

Pros: Wonderful actors, beautiful story, history
Cons: Length

Empire of the Sun is an UNBELIEVABLY good movie. I saw it about a week ago, and I just can't get it out of my head. I've always heard about it, but I thought it would be a movie about the war, and I'm not much into war flicks. Boy, was I...

Pros: Good photography, good story, big scale
Cons: Some themes a little grim.. but no gratuitous nastiness

This is my all time "most significant" film.

Epinions tells me that it came out in 1987. To this day, I often remember the film (and how lucky I am) when I turn on a water faucet. (Clean, easy water was not a feature of the WW II...

Pros: Uniformly superb and emotional filmmaking.
Cons: May be too overly long for some tastes.

Imagine the way war looks from the eyes of a child. To a child, the politics don't matter. What matters simply is that big men with guns are killing people all around you and the ones you love are the ones in the crossfire. To paraphrase a line from ...

Pros: This underrated and underappreciated film foreshadows Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan's greatness.
Cons: Darker, starker than average Spielberg film. E.T. this ain't.

In the behind-the-scenes featurette for Saving Private Ryan, director Steven Spielberg admits he has an "obsession" with World War II. More than half his movies - ranging from the comedy 1941 to the Oscar-winning Schindler's List - are set in the dark ...