Truly Amazing Movie...

Rating: 10/10 (5 September 2003)

If I compared this to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, which was a very good movie, but lacking in emotional content and a bit incoherent (the part in the desert was very out of place and slow to me), I thought Hero was a much better made movie.
* Spoilers Ahead *
1. I felt that Hero had a very tight story line, about a man (Nameless) trying to assassinate the first Emperor. I really liked how they recalled each of the events in the past, at a slightly different angle and viewpoint. It reminded me of Run Lola Run a bit, which is another film I really liked.
2. The colors and cinematography in this movie was just AMAZING! It was on par or even better than Crouching Tiger's
3. The fight scenes in here are full, complete, and not short and broken like Crouching...
4. The one thing I REALLY liked about the movie was how it made us look at something from a different view point (which I think is what this movie is all about). Different people have completely different interpretations of a single event. Even though the First Emperor has always been a villan in Chinese history, and done a lot of very terrible things, the way the movie portrays him brings out a very valid opposing view. Yes, unification of a country is a very hard thing to do, and one has to take certain measure to do it. Could we blame him for what he did, as it led to one of the golden ages in China (The Han dynasty) shortly after? Who knows, since it's all 2000+ years in the past.
All in all, this was a brilliant film, and I wished it came out before Crouching Tiger so it could have gotten more buzz instead of being called a "copy cat" movie...
Cheers! 10/10 Kryzak