The Guardian's Phil Hoad called it 'straight-up propaganda. Western critics who have seen The Battle At Lake Changjin haven't been kind to it. The film was commissioned by the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda department to be timed with the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Community Party's establishment.

Although the Korean War is seen as a defeat for China by many Western historians, the film focuses on a battle early during the war, with a group of outnumbered Chinese soldiers fighting Americans at the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea.

Two months after The Battle At Lake Changjin hit theaters, the movie broke China's all-time box office record, surpassing another war movie, 2017's Wolf Warrior II, reports Variety. The highest-ranking Hollywood movie is No Time to Die, which has grossed $768 million so far. The second-highest grossing movie of the year is another Chinese title, the comedy Ni Hao, Li Huan Ying ( Hi, Mom), which has grossed $841 million worldwide. The movie also has a very limited release in Australia and the U.K., which brings its worldwide total to $903,878,358. It has grossed $903.7 million there as of Dec. 30, just in time for the National Day holiday season. The Battle At Lake Changjin was released in China on Sept. The $200 million picture is a dramatization of the Korean War battle and is unlikely to ever be widely released in U.S. Chang jin hu, or The Battle At Lake Changjin, is the highest-grossing movie of 2021, grossing over $903 million in China. That's because the movie that already has that title has made close to $1 billion. While Spider-Man: No Way Home sets pandemic-era box office records in most of the world, it still has a long road to go to become the highest-grossing film of 2021.

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