Sorry, this movie sucks

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

. . . in the mid-1950s, when there was still time to contain it. BLOOD ALLEY takes place in a China populated by "only" 500 million folks. BLOOD ALLEY depicts Chinese Imperialists so land-hungry that entire towns disappear overnight, only to pop up on foreign shores days later. Warner reveals that these Chinese-on-the-move are not unlike "worker bees" or "army ants," using their sheer numbers to create instant reefs and islands, as they're doing on a slightly larger scale in the South China Sea today. Warner shows that products made with the Union Label in America represent Humanity's Best Hope. This includes an 1885 made-in-Sacramento ferry in which this story takes place, nearly 60 years after its christening. On the other hand, Warner suggests that we can expect food poisoning from China in return. Recent headlines highlighting poison baby formula, poison pet food, poison formaldehyde plaster board, and countless other "accidentally" poisoned Chinese products bear out the fact that America did not heed Warner's BLOOD ALLEY warning. Owing to the plotting of the devious and disgraced U.S. President Milhouse Nixon, the 21st is the Chinese Century. This flick's British Hong Kong is now 100% Communist, thanks to John Wayne planting a Fifth Column there is BLOOD ALLEY.

Interesting, but predictable John Wayne venue. It is never fully explained how the villagers were able to get Wayne out of a Chinese Communist prison. Of course, when he comes to them, they tell them of their desire to flee to Hong Kong and that he should lead them on a steamer which is a lot to be desired.Surprisingly, there isn't that much violence in the film. Lauren Bacall portrays an American in the village whose father is a doctor there. Bacall is rather subdued here, and of course romance comes slowly between her character and that of Wayne's.Good vehicle for Wayne to have promoted his anti-Communist agenda. He constantly makes references to Baby, an imaginative person. Reminded me of Mike Myers.

"i think they just want to evilize the Chinese communist government (they may be or not be, now their people are manufacturing for the world)"This, posted above, reflects the attitude of several commenters whose left-wing sphincters reflexively contracted the second they read the name "John Wayne". "Blood Alley" isn't great, and it isn't one of Wayne's best movies, but it's well-made and entertaining enough to be worthy of at least one viewing. As for "evilizing" the Chinese government, Mao Zedong and his regime did a fine job of doing that themselves when their actions resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of their own people, not to mention brutal imprisonment of non-criminals, slavery, stupid agricultural policies that resulted in mass starvation, etc., etc. It's no wonder the people in the film's village wanted to escape. But damn John Wayne and his conservative cronies for making it the background of an escapist adventure movie. Because after all, the death and oppression of countless innocent people that is the legacy of the communists in China is okay, because "now their people are manufacturing for the world", and who is the Duke to say otherwise?

really, a comment by nnnn45089191 is exactly what this movie is, Right-wing propaganda of the 50's Author: nnnn45089191 from NorwayMost of the views here are from western countries, where people had tunnel vision of what china was about in the 1950s. propaganda is a universal tool used by Germans, Japanese, Americans, Chinese, English, in fact all government in that chapter of earth's history.the movie didn't even try to depict the real environment in china, having westerners dressed in feudalism period Chinese costumes and speak cantonese (mandarine is the official Chinese language and cantonese is only spoken in one Chinese province - canton) is just hilarious. And it also shows how desperate the film producers are trying to convey the story, no matter how unprofessional the movie looks.and when the "Chinese navy" fired, the battleship officers were speaking cantonese too... and Chinese army had absolutely no such fire power in the 1950s. if you don't get the hang of this, try imagining this way, 1. American's war against the native indians, 2.a bunch of white Americans dressed like indians, speaking a minority Indian language poorly 3.indian army's fighter jet rains deathreally, the film makers have no idea what china really is and they clearly showed no intention of even trying to convey the true image... the whole story was a make up.u really need to ask, what is it that they want to achieve by making such a film.i think they just want to evilize the Chinese communist government (they may be or not be, now their people are manufacturing for the world), like what GW Bush did to the old iraq regime whom was once supported by the USA government itself.