With the CG demolition over in the first act, this Chinese epic about the 1976 Tangshan earthquake settles into an absorbing three-decade saga, raking through the emotional debris of a family torn apart. For once, it’s the characters that move, not the earth, and it puts Emmerich’s cartoon destructathons to shame.
Aftershock Review
During the Tangshan Earthquake of 1976, a mother is forced to choose which of her children is saved from the rubble, since rescue teams fear that rescuing one will kill the other. She chooses her son - but her daughter survives and grows up apart from her family, until they meet again 30 years later...
Release Date:
12 Nov 2010
Running Time:
135 minutes
Certificate:
15
Original Title:
Aftershock
An epic and heartbreaking take on the Sophie's Choice dilemma.
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