Posted at March 25, 2013, 1:15 am:
The Chinese film Hero is, simply put, great cinema. An epic featuring tons of drama, intrigue, martial arts that clocks in at an incredibly short 96 minutes. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foriegn Language Film of the Year, but unfortunately it lost to Nowhere in Africa.
In Hero a man called Nameless is given an audience to the King of Qin, a powerful warlord in a pre-unified China. Nameless has killed three assassins who were targeting the King, and the King asks him to describe in detail how he defeated the assassins. The film then gives a series of flashbacks in a Rashomonesque style. This description may not sound so sweeping, but this film is full of surprises and revelations.
Set to a thunderous score and featuring exquisite cinematography this movie offers a very unique experience. It may be reminiscent of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in some respects, but it has a tone all its own. It's both meditative and enthralling, heartpounding and graceful. Hero has an amazing combination of all things cinematic: beautiful sets, a giant production, exciting action, dramatic and involving relationships, great music, magical sequences, and themes of love, hatred, art, unity, power, peace, and more.
A fantastic film.
Hero is set to be released in U.S. theaters this Novemeber, but the import DVD is already available and those of you with good video stores in your area may be able to rent it already.
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Kong is not joking here, folks.
You should also mention Jet Li is the star in it.
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Hero is the best movie I have ever seen and probably the best martial ...
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I think Kong got over-Django'ed and called it quits.
I need to see this.
Going to see "Hero" in three hours.
I actually went into this film hoping to like it with all the positive...
The movie was overly winded and dragged for a while.
It has got lots of more negative reviews than positive since it's rele...
Elaborate!
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HERO
Staring Jet Li could have been a truly kick ass martial arts mo...
Wow.
If you put it that way sure, it was sort of dissapointing, but what we...
If anyone watches this film expecting realistic martial arts they will...
Yeah.
The martial arts were a little over the top but I think it worked perf...
this movie was absolutly crazy, i loved how the clothing changed durin...
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The reason some did not like this movie is because they went in expect...
I thought it was an incredible movie.
I have not seen this yet and I expect I will enjoy it, but a friend of...
It's a beautiful film, the plot's not the strongest but with visuals l...
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I thought the movie was decent, not as great as people say.
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