Ying xiong (2002)

Rating: 8/10 (4 October 2004)

First things first I guess I should state that Eastern films are not my "thing", I haven't viewed many films from Asia, the last film I saw in a cinema from this genre was the hugely successful 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon'. I am not one of these movie fans that saw that and all of a sudden knew everything about these kind of movies!!!!!
"Hero" was flawed in places but it has to be said that it was probably the most beautiful looking film I have seen in the cinema in 2004. The cast do an okay job though I wasn't impressed by Jet Li in the movie, I'm not a fan of his anyway. I thought the key factors in this film was the direction, photography and good support cast.
I was surprised with the amount of people who who were in the cinema laughing EVERY time the fights had flying etc in them! Did they not expect this? Mind you exactly the occurred happened when I saw C-T-H-D!
"Hero" is a film I would urge the world to see!!!!