SilverRating

Rating: 6/10 (9 April 2014)

Hero (Ying Xiong)- China 2002
This is #3 on the list.
This movie, is, is unpredictable yet also extremely predictable. And it isn't bad acting or bad directing that gives away the plot, it's just the story and how it progresses. After all, this movie is a 6/10
The acting in the movie is alright, I understand that they are acting the customs of how their characters were at the time (generation) of the Qing dynasty, but it leaves the acting dead and bland. Fight scenes were magnificent, but, differing from "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" Hero feels choreographed. Well besides the first fight in the rain, the rest feels like a choreographed dance. I loved it, as I tend to love these type of fight movies, but it just felt choreographed. Not silly, just you could tell that the movements were planned.
The camera angle, not involving Jet Li or the Qin Emperor, but of the others, were really cheesy. Maybe it is the fact that I love Akira Kurosawa to death, this movie disappointed, because I was already given high expectation of these types of movies.
SilverRating: 6/10