one of the best movies, not just becuz jet li is in it

Rating: Null/10 (11 September 2004)

OK , i am a Asian movie fan, bigtime thats pretty much what most of my DVD collection is made up of. so when i saw that this was being released here in America i was excited and couldn't wait for it to come out. the only reason i went to see in theaters was so i could support the genre and also to see the differences in the rerelease version, cuz i have owned the Chinese version on DVD for 3 months now. OK when i first saw the preview, my assumption was correct in the fact that the movie would be sold purely on jet li's name and also Quentin's name as it is being presented by him, let me explain this QT has nothing to do with the actual making of it, he just help bring it to the us for showing in theaters, same with iron monkey. What a lot of people don't realize is that this is an all star cast jet li, donnie yen, maggie cheung, tony leung and zhang zhiyi, just look up their names and u will see that each one of these people is a major star in Asian cinema and have made a bunch of other films.
issues with the plot: i didn't have any, u just have to put some thought into it, the colors and the multiple fight scenes are reference to who's point of view ur seeing the story thru, when they are all wearing white, this is the truth, thru nobody's view, they are wearing white which is Chinese color for death. THE FLYING fight scenes were not real, those fight scenes were either fake, never really happened becuz they were in their minds or they were embellishments of the persons point of view thru visuals, its like when u tell a story u embellish it a bit thru description well the films way of doin this is thru visuals. ONE MAJOR ISSUE, is some of the translation in the film is off, THE TWO WORDS THAT TONY LEUNGS CHARACTER WRITES IN THE SAND AS BEING(OUR LAND), IN THE ORIGINAL Chinese VERSION, ITS 3 WORDS (ALL UNDER HEAVEN) WHICH SOUNDS A LOT BETTER AND HAS TO MAKE U THINK A BIT. as far as actors, plot and action and visuals HERO is on of the best movies. and as much as i liked crouching tiger hidden dragon, they are two different movies. i don't think one is better than the other. i own both of them. so go see it and have fun and there isn't supposed to be comedy in this film its a more serious movie. 9/10