Hollywood's got very much to learn

Rating: 9/10 (21 February 2005)

After breaking a leg with the Oscar-winning CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON the Asian movie making has been in a top-notch popularity. HERO features Jet Li and is one of the best Asian movie ever made I dare say, with visual effects and spellbinding story and adventure this movie charmed me down to my knees.
Action scenes better than Hollywood in it's most spectacular, HERO delivers more than expected really. And with the visual cinema better than ever seen before, this movie really takes the whole genre a big leap forward with it's ambitious way of behavior. Not being anything of the pure violence the other Asian movies like showing off, this movie puts itself in a truly romantic and beautiful way of telling a story that you can't avoid to see the ending of.
With fighting more beautiful than romance the movie lets you into a universe that is simply one of the best this world can offer at this time. THE MATRIX may have re-defined the world of cinema, but this kind of movies really make you realize that the visual of a movie is the most important of it all.