This film was a failure because a movie about Confucius is lame. Nobody in the western world dares to make a movie about western thinkers like Descartes, Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Aquinas. It’s disrespectful to make a movie about a philosopher highlighting his life and not his thought.

This was a clearly state run movie. pretty embarrassing.

He uses his popularity in his desperate attempt to get noticed, like every other celebrity.

It doesn’t make him a competent speaker or the most intelligent kind of people.

Yes he is only influential because of his fame.
Wait a minute, that sounds so much like America…

Someone censor this guy, his rubbish might spread.

Those who produced “Confucius” and hope it will be a success in any manner are like those Chinese who just have nothing to hold on to except Chinese martial art, qigong, wudang or the repeated focusing on the the pandas being unique to China or to just claim some uniqueness in some things Chinese. Those whose souls are rigid and lethargic do no understand human psychology and they act mostly from rigidly held opinions and cannot see beyond themselves.

Anyone who want to make successful films must first understand the success of some popular childhood stories that have been passed down and told and retold for a few hundred years, eg:-
1) The Pipe Piper of Hamlin.
2) Cinderella – and how illogical it is that only one woman’s foot can fit into that glass shoe – and cheated us all again and again.

If anyone can make a film or TV drama on the life of Confucius that become a hit, then that director and scriptwriter would be genius of the highest order.

Han is right, the best movies reflect people’s desires and pure emotions, it allows them to transcend their imagination as a collective through a shared (visual, otherwise) experience. We cannot relate to Confucius and the entire plot! Great movies make us bring questions we often take for granted onto a higher philosophical level (M.Night Shyamalan, Lady in Water, e.g)

Really disappointed with the movie. I think it was naive to assume China would ever dare to ask its people to think in a higher order. For that I hope the Chinese people realize the world completely sees this now after watching the movie!