Beautiful Opera

Rating: 10/10 (2 April 2007)

If you want to see a perfect example of Chinese acting, storytelling and cinematography (Christopher Doyle), as well as one of the best directors in the business, then you can't go wrong with Hero.
It won 21 awards (It should have won 23, but the Golden Globes and Academy voters were idiots!) Director Yimou Zhang (House of Flying Dragons, Curse of the Golden Flower) has given us a stunning ballet of China two thousand years ago.
The cast includes some of the very best in Chinese movie epics and includes Jet Li (KIss of the Dragon, Romeo Must Die) in his greatest role; Tony Leung Chiu Wai (Infernal Affairs or the real "Departed"); Ziyi Zhang (Memoirs of a Geisha, TMNT); and Maggie Cheung (2046).
Like great opera, this film bears watching over and over.