Cloudy Mountain 峰爆 China, 2021, colour, 2.35:1, 113 mins. Director: Li Jun 李骏. Rating: 6/10. By-the-book disaster movie starts gangbusters but then becomes more cartoony and unbelievable. STORY Yunjiang county, Anyang province, somewhere in southwest China, the present day, 28 Jan. A construction team is blasting a tunnel through Yundang mountain as part of a … Continue reading Review: Cloudy Mountain (2021) →
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