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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: A nomadic life-and-death struggle evoking classic Hollywood western themes of dogged honor and rugged idealism. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: One of the most beautiful and disturbing widescreen epics in last year's Seattle International Film Festival. Read more
Tasha Robinson, AV Club: The film's somber beauty is recommendation enough, but the way political, personal, and symbolic tensions seethe silently below the surface turn it into riveting drama. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Never has a movie so soberingly made the fight to save life and the struggle to hold on to it seem so futile. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Being in this pitiless environment stiffens the spine of the film's tale. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Instead of a laudable ecological crusade, the film feels more like a futile Captain Ahab obsession, with patrol leader Ri Tai (Duobujie) vainly chasing a poaching kingpin through the harsh, windy wilderness. Read more
Chuck Wilson, L.A. Weekly: Mountain Patrol: Kekexili is sometimes slow going, yet it builds in power as nature begins to take its toll on the patrol, and its cumulative effects are haunting. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: The spirit of the hardboiled American Westerns of the 1950s wends its way through this moody, panoramic Chinese chase thriller. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Director Lu Chuan took his lumps by filming the movie on location in an inhospitable locale, but his decision to do so is validated by the final result. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What is remarkable is that this film is based on a true story, and filmed on the actual locations. Read more
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: Other than raising awareness for endangered wildlife, Mountain Patrol: Kekexili doesn't have anything profound to say, but it has a lot to show. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: An epic story of white-knuckle tension in a setting of harsh, unearthly beauty, it's the kind of story Hemingway might have told if he'd made it to the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Read more
Russell Edwards, Variety: Exquisite to behold and with a stimulating storyline that mixes guns with ecological consciousness. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: For better or worse, no film of the last decade, not even Malick's The New World, has displayed such a ferocious intimacy with extreme landscape. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The most crucial element of Mountain Patrol's success is Duo's portrayal of Ri Tai, a tough, terse hero who could have sprung fully formed from the imagination of Akira Kurosawa or Sergio Leone. Read more