focus on the more important things of ying xiong(hero)

Rating: 10/10 (21 August 2003)

people, please! stop comparing ying xiong to crouching tiger, hidden dragon, because these two movies are very different. while both have the same martial arts genre, ying xiong is a step away from traditional martial arts movies and novels. traditionally, heroes of the wuxia genre never dies! the story is always about how their loved ones or close ones are killed, and now they're on a mission to avenge their deaths. or it could be about how they will try to stop a tyrant from killing innocent people, and if that was the case for ying xiong, jet li wouldn't die, and the first emperor of china wouldn't have been able to unite china. stop focusing on useless things such as historical accuracy, the fight choreography, or how tony leung was stabbed three times (though i have to admit that was kind of funny in a way), rather, focus on the bigger message here--peace! "one person's pains and sufferings are nothing when they are compared to the pains and sufferings of the world!" "the heart is more important than the sword." these are the real messages and purpose of this movie, not beautiful scenes from chengdu, or how the first emperor of a unified china was a tyrant. so look at the bigger picture here, otherwise, you've just wasted an hour and a half for nothing!