less than ordinary movie with extraordinary cinematography (SPOILER: Story revealed)

Rating: 1/10 (28 August 2004)

If you ask me what is good about this over-hyped movie, I would not be able to come up with more than one reason and that would be its cinematography. Its one of the best, no doubt but the question is that would you watch a movie just because of special effects no matter its storyless or lacking a good script? And moreover its not in English (chinese with subtitles)? If you answer these questions with "Yes" then you can goahead and watch this movie. Personally, due to its overly rating and high critics opinion, I had really high expectations from this movie but in reality, there is nothing other than martial arts with exceptional camera actions. People flying like jets, fighting over water etc were some of the un-realistic scenes which lets you think that may be its bit too much. Movie starts with a confrontation between king and the nameless warrior (Jet Li) and there starts different stories about how the warrior was able to fight his enemies who turns out to be actually his allies in the mission of killing the ruthless king. This is one of the worst scripts I have seen. In that respect, I consider Jackie Chan's movies as much better than what Hero is, at least the guy does his own stunts and they are entertaining at least. After you see Hero, you keep thinking that did you really expect what you saw? May be not. If the Broken Sword really had the idea of not killing the king from the last time they attempted the attack on king, why did he keep quiet for so long until Jet Li and team had already prepared for the next attack? Isn't it ridiculous? Why did Broken Sword's girlfriend had to kill him? And why did he draw the sword at her to make her believe that he loves her? I mean if he is so big supporter of peace then why the heck he let the drama happen? Anyway, script-wise, this movie has so many flaws that you would simply like to leave your brain out of the theater when you see this movie.
my rating: I would give it 4 but because it is overrate, I am giving it 0 to balance the overratings.