Monday, March 23, 2009

Jeffrey Dean Morgan Shanghai "mini review"

As was metioned a little while ago, there was an advanced screening of Shanghai in NYC on March 19th,

IMDb user gg6471-1 posted a fairly extensive review. You can read the whole thing here.
http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt1092634/boar....4&p=1#133503894

I took this excerpt because this is where it talks about Jeff's role.

Obviously, spoilers.




"The plot was hard for me to follow, especially since going in I didn’t know anything about the movie. From what I have gathered, the plot is a WW2 drama. It takes place right before America joins the war and Japan attacks China and Pearl Harbor. John Cusack and Jeffery Dean Morgan are spies for America in Shanghai trying to figure out what Japan is doing there and what's going on with the war. (I didn't figure out that they were spies until the end of the movie). John Cusack's cover up is a journalist, and throughout the movie he kicks a lot of ass. I was shocked because I didn't think a journalist could be so bad ass, and then I found out he was actually a spy and it made a little more sense. Anyways, Morgan gets involved with the Japan's army commander's mistress and gets wind of attack plans on Pearl Harbor. He passes it on to Cusack who tries to gather enough evidence to prove it to his superiors so that they can be prepared for an attack on Pearl Harbor. He gets involved with the Mafia leader played by Yun-Fat Chow, and his wife played by Li Gong and together/secretly/behind backs figure out what Japan and Germany are up too."

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