Beyond your imagination...

Rating: 10/10 (23 September 2005)

How to describe "Hero"? Well, it doesn't suffice to call it an action movie; it's a lot more psychological than that. It tells of how a warrior known only as Nameless (Jet Li) defeated some assassins who sought to kill the emperor. Like many Chinese or Hong Kong movies today, it employs some scenes that previously would have only been suited to fantasy movies. But they do an impressive job with such imagery here. Maybe "Hero" could qualify as a fantasy, but it uses so many different methods of story-telling, that you almost can't narrow the movie down to one classification. Zhang Yimou, who continued his fascinating streak with "The House of Flying Daggers", made a masterpiece here. You have to see it.