commercialised

Rating: Null/10 (8 July 2004)

It is an interesting concept to depict a story from different perspectives. Although it is an interesting idea, but the rest of the movie does not live up to it, such as characterisation, music and cinematography.
The story changes constantly with the plot and the characters such as the same the characters are presented differently in each segment (okay u have to watch the movie to understand what i am on about) and the audience does not have anything to chew on that is to interpret thus explore the characterisation of each characters.
The cinematography is half between an action pack movie and an abstract movie. It like making a commericalised action movie (everything is digitally enhanced to be more dramatic) more tasteful or arty or whatever. So i thought that was crap.
The music with the Japanese drum reminds me of Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon which is the last thing you want, because the music of Crouching is so great and beautifully woven into its story. However, the music of Hero stood out rather than completing the movie.
I like some of the sceneries. some of them are really pretty and the cinematography captures that atmosphere where everything looks surreal like it is in a fictional story. Also i like the scene where the two red chicks were fighting on an autumn day with yellow leaves flying around them. I thought that was pretty but i didn't understand the symbolism of it.
Last thing, the dude who plays sword or something was not very good. He had the same look throughout the entire movie.