Operation Red Sea (2018) on Netflix
TV-MA20182h 22mActionDramaThrillerWar
Somali pirates board the cargo ship Guangdong in the Red Sea, and the Chinese Navy sends its Jiaolong Assault Team. In Yewaire, the unit is ordered to bring Chinese citizens out.
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- Netflix2.7/5
- IMDb6.6/108,740 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes80%
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Plot summary
The Chinese Navy patrols the Red Sea, where Somali pirates have seized the cargo ship Guangdong with Chinese passengers and crew aboard. Eight men of the Jiaolong Assault Team go in ahead of the fleet, and their sniper is wounded and must be replaced. Civil war then unsettles Yewaire on the Arabian Peninsula, and the unit is ordered to move Chinese citizens out to the naval vessels waiting in harbor. A Chinese-French journalist in the country learns that the terrorist group Zaka intends to block that cooperation and is gathering yellowcake for a dirty bomb. With little help from a government in turmoil, the team must carry the civilians seventy-five miles overland in a jeep convoy.
Cast
- Jiahao Guoas Lu Chen (as Guo Yubin)
- Khalid Benchagraas Dr. William Parsons
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Operation Red Sea (2018)
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- Operation Red Sea is loosely based on the real evacuation of foreign nationals and almost 600 Chinese citizens from Yemen's southern port of Aden during the Yemeni Civil War in late March 2015.
- After 23 days of release the film became the top-grossing Spring Festival film of all time in China, taking more than RMB3.4 billion and surpassing the previous record holder, The Mermaid (2016).
- Operation Red Sea was presented as a gift film for the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the party's 19th National Congress, and is said to be China's first modern naval film.
