At an hour and a half, this movie was too long!

Rating: 6/10 (29 August 2004)

(Contains spoilers) As good as many aspects of were, "Hero" still waisted my time. The action was of the highest quality. The story started out boring and developed to being very intricate. Acting was great. Music was excellent. Use of colors, cinematography, shots, etc., was outstanding. This movie's fatal flaw was that it took way too long to emphasize the emotion of a particular character or scene. However, it still wasted my time in many regards because many of the displays of emotion were too overdrawn. For example, The final time Moon approached Sky and Broken Sword, she kept running, and running, and running, and running, and running.
She kept screaming, and screaming, and screaming, and screaming, and....you get the point. Also, in the end when Qin's army kept repeating "Execute him" to the point that I thought I was watching Jesus Christ, Superstar, I wanted to break something. This occurred so often, and to such a degree, that my ranking went from a 9 to a 6. Too many times did I say to myself, "I got what you're trying to say, move on!" Was it visually stimulating, yes. Was the story well done, yes. Did it fail to be a good movie, absolutely.